Rubble Music (eBook)

Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945–1950

Abby Anderton (Autor)

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2019
194 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04243-9 (ISBN)

Infos

1. Rubble Music examines the links between trauma, urban decay and ruins, and music. While extensive attention has been paid to the idea of rubble and ruin in post-WWII visual and literary arts, there has been limited work done on the influence of rubble and ruin in sound and music. This book identifies the hallmarks of this new genre, which the author defines as "the sound of civilian suffering after urban catastrophe."

2. This book explores the suffering of everyday German citizens in Berlin during the period of occupation and reconstruction. This has been a previously taboo subject so this book breaks new ground through its very focus.

3. In this work the author provides a strong theoretical foundation for the concept of rubble music, which can easily be applied to other studies of historical and contemporary music, sound, and trauma studies.

4. The author, Abby Anderton, is an up-and-coming scholar and peer reviews of the book indicate that her work will be foundation in music studies.

With detailed explorations of reconstituted orchestral ensembles, opera companies, and radio stations, as well as analyses of performances and compositions that were beyond the reach of the Allied occupiers, Anderton demonstrates how German musicians worked through, cleared away, or built over the debris and devastation of the war.

Autor

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Abby Anderton is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Berlin Soundscapes of Defeat and Occupation

2. Occupied Music: The Berlin Philharmonic and the American Military

3. Rubble Opera after 1945: East Berlin's Staatsoper and West Berlin's Städtische Oper

4. Embodied and Disembodied Voices: Listening to Sonic Ruins

5. Berlin 1945: Towards a Ruin Aesthetic in Music

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.7.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w illus., 7 music exx.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1945 • Allied Air War • Allied Forces • American sector • Berlin • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra • British Sector • Culture • Das Unheimliche • Denazification • Destruction • Eberhard Schmidt • Europe • French Sector • German composers • German victimhood • Germany • Heinz Tiessen • History • Jewish • Max Butting • music • Musical Repertoire • musicology • Occupation • Opera • Operatic Rubble Women • orchestral music • Paul Höffer • Performance • postwar Germany • post-wwii • Radio • reconstruction • Rubble • Rubble Art • Rubble Film • Rubble Literature • Rubble Music • Ruins • Schmidt • Sonic Space • Soviet sector • Staatsoper • Städtische Oper • Trauma • Trümmerfilme • Trümmerfrauen • Trümmerkunst • Trümmerliteratur • Trümmermusik • World War II • WWII • Zero Hour
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04243-7 / 0253042437
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04243-9 / 9780253042439