With passionate prose, abundant detail, and a dazzling array of sources, Jillian C. Rogers provides a gripping account in Resonant Recoveries of the many ways music helped to mend the fabric of French life after it was ripped apart by World War I. An ethics of care and concern for her historical subjects — traumatized, but resilient and resourceful — adds further distinction to the work and yields a multitude of fresh insights.
Jillian C. Rogers is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. Her research centers on relationships between music/sound and trauma in historical contexts.