Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation

The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the Western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. The composer as witness: Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw; 2. The philosopher as witness: Theodor Adorno's A Survivor from Warsaw; 3. The composer as witness: Hanns Eisler's Nuit et Brouillard; 4. The state as witness: Jüdische Chronik in the German Democratic Republic; 5. The composer as witness: Steve Reich's Different Trains; Epilogue.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Amy Lynn Wlodarski is associate professor of music at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, where she has earned both institutional and national teaching awards. She is the co-editor, with Elaine Kelly, of Art outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture (2011) and was the 2012 recipient of the Irving Lowens Prize for an outstanding musicological article (Society of American Music). Her scholarship has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of the American Musicological Society and the Journal of Musicology, as well as in select edited volumes. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships, including funding from the Harry Starr Fellowship at Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, and the Presser Music Foundation. She also offers regular speaking engagements and pre-concert lectures with leading musical ensembles, such as the Los Angeles Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Amy Lynn Wlodarski, Amy Lynn (Dickinson College Wlodarski, Wlodarski Amy Lynn
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107538849
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53884-9
• Seiten: 253
• Serien: Music Since 1900; Music Since 1900
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Israel, History, Music, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Europe, MUSIC / General, 20th Century, Philosophy, german, Middle East, c 1800 to c 1900, Trauma & shock, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Philosophy: aesthetics, Theory of music & musicology, Hebrew, c 1940 to c 1949, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Art music, orchestral and formal music