Sounds of Survival

Polish Music and the Holocaust

J. Mackenzie Pierce (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

380 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40592-9 (ISBN)

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Sounds of Survival tells a story of unexpected musical continuity across some of the twentieth century's most cataclysmic events. It examines an integrated Polish-Jewish musical community as its members contended with antisemitism in the 1930s, were persecuted during the Nazi occupation, and attempted to establish a renewed musical culture from the ashes of World War II and the Holocaust. Attending to these musicians from the 1920s into the 1950s, the book is a rigorous examination of Jewishness within twentieth-century Polish classical music, and the first to examine how the Holocaust was a defining event for the country's musical culture. J. Mackenzie Pierce argues that despite the nearly unimaginable violence experienced by these musicians, many of their projects and ideals were reinvited and preserved across war and genocide. Thus, he rejects the common assumption that World War II and the Holocaust were epoch-defining ruptures in Polish, Jewish, and European culture, instead showing that the midcentury was a period of fervent reinvention and cultural development in response to trauma.

J. Mackenzie Pierce is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.5.2025
Zusatzinfo	18 b-w figures, 11 musical examples, 3 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-40592-7 / 0520405927
ISBN-13	978-0-520-40592-9 / 9780520405929
Zustand	Neuware