Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Anaïs Fléchet, Martin Guerpin, Philippe Gumplowicz, Barbara L. Kelly (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

321 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-894-2 (ISBN)

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From the Napoleonic Wars to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, via the great world conflicts of the 20th century, Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of ‘postwar transitions’ in the field of music and to demonstrate the influence that musicians, composers, critics, institutions, and publics have had on the period that follows conflict. Leading historians, political scientists, psychologists and musicologists explore the roles of music and culture in demobilization, reconstruction, memory, reconciliation, revenge, and nationalist backlash. Moving beyond the popular conception of music as an agent of peace, this study reveals music’s more complex and ambivalent role in the process of transition from war to peace.

Anaïs Fléchet is Associate professor in International History at the University Paris-Saclay, and member of the research team Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines. Her research focuses on music, international history, Brazil and the Global South.

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Jay Winter

Introduction: Rethinking post-war transitions from a musical perspective

Anaïs Fléchet, Martin Guerpin, Philippe Gumplowicz, Barbara L. Kelly

Part I: Reconstructing the Music World

Chapter 1. Emerging from the turmoil: Georges Bizet in the early 1870s

Hervé Lacombe

Chapter 2. A Post-Revolutionary Musical Order: Mexico, 1910-1930

Pablo Palomino

Chapter 3. First Concerts on Familiar Ground? The Post-War International Comebacks of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, 1947/48

Friedemann Pestel

Part II: A gradual demobilisation: music, cultures of war and national imaginations

Chapter 4. Discourse on music and the post-war transition: The case of France after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870-1871

Emmanuel Reibel

Chapter 5. Singing about war and the enemy after a conflict: Two post-war transitions in France (1871, 1914-1918) at the café-concert and the music hall

Martin Guerpin

Chapter 6. From Cœuroyto Céline: Popular music in the ‘war of good taste’ during the false post-conflict transition period, 1940-1942

Philippe Gumplowicz

Chapter 7. Wars, Ethnic Conflicts and the Political Use of Folk Music

Michael Wedekind

Part III: Memory, mourning and commemoration

Chapter 8. Béranger’s Napoleonic songs: mourning, memory and the future

Sophie‑Anne Leterrier

Chapter 9. Paul Hindemith’s Minimax and the Trauma of War

Lesley Hughes

Chapter 10. A transatlantic repertoire of resistance and mourning in the post-war years: The songs from the ghettos and camps collected by Shmerke Kaczerginski (Vilnius, New York, Buenos Aires)

Jean-Sébastien Noël

Chapter 11. Singing the unspeakable in Rwanda in the summer of 1994: Music in the context of the genocidal abyss through a portrait of the artist

Benjamin Chemouni and Assumpta Mugiraneza

Part IV: Music for peace and reconciliation?

Chapter 12. ‘Congress never works better than when it dances’: Music, Peacemaking, and Congress Diplomacy, 1814-1856

Damien Mahiet

Chapter 13. Internationalism and Musical Exchange in post-World-War 1 Europe

Barbara L. Kelly

Chapter 14. Music and peace‑building? The creation of the International Music Council (1946-1950)

Anaïs Fléchet

Postface: The Quest for Harmony?Music and post‑war transitions from international perspective

Jessica Gienow-Hecht

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Culture and International History
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80073-894-3 / 1800738943
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-894-2 / 9781800738942
Zustand	Neuware