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Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction: Music since 1900

Autor Heather Wiebe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2015
Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107507821
ISBN-10: 1107507820
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: 2 b/w illus. 1 table 31 music examples
Dimensiuni: 170 x 245 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Music since 1900

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. Music and cultural renewal; 2. 'Today on Earth the Angels Sing': carols in wartime; 3. Realizing Purcell; 4. Gloriana and the 'new Elizabethans'; 5. Noye's Fludde and the rituals of lost faith; 6. Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry.

Recenzii

'Fascinating …' The Times Literary Supplement
'Unfailingly readable …' Musical Times

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Descriere

Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.