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Performing commemoration : musical reenactment and the politics of trauma / Annegret Fauser and Michael A. Figueroa, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Music and social justice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Performance--Political aspects.
- Music.
- Music--Performance--Social aspects.
- Music--Performance--Psychological aspects.
- Historical reenactments.
- Memorials.
- Music--Performance.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to the current civil wars in the Congo and the #sayhername protests. Whose version of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated question, and music adds further layers to this complexity, particularly music without words. The three sections of this collection look at different facets of musical commemorations and reenactments, focusing on how music can mediate, but also intensify responses to social injustice; how reenactments and their use of music are shifting (and not always toward greater social effectiveness); and how claims for musical authenticity are politicized in various ways. By engaging with critical theory around memory studies and performance studies, the contributors to this volume explore social justice, in, and through music.
- Contents:
- Trauma, Survival, and Musical Commemoration
- 1 Ensounding Trauma, Performing Commemoration: Western Music in Time of War and Tumults p. 19 / Annegret Fauser
- 2 Commemorating Performance, the Cabaretesque, and History Inside Out p. 41 / Philip V. Bohlman
- 3 Music Commemorating the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings p. 68 / Noriko Manabe
- Mediation, Memory, and Musical Reenactment
- 4 An Anthem for the AMIA Cause: León Gieco's "La Memoria" and Public Assembly in the Benefit Music Video from Argentina p. 97 / Lillian M. Wohl
- 5 Musical Memory, Animated Amnesia: The Soundtrack of Exoneration in Waltz with Bashir p. 121 / Michael A. Figueroa
- 6 Say Her Name: Invocation, Remembrance, and Gendered Trauma in Black Lives Matter p. 142 / Imani Danielle Mosley
- Possibilities and Impossibilities of Commemoration: Trauma's Persistence and the Politics of Reenactment
- 7 Songs of Flight: War and Genocide Reenactment on the Refugee Route p. 165 / Vanessa Agnew
- 8 Overwriting Sound: Polish Commemoration in Concert p. 193 / Andrea F. Bohlman
- 9 Music and the Mediation of Remembrance: Reflections on the Commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide p. 219 / Sylvia Angelique Alajaji
- 10 The Accidental Archivists: Memory, Resonance, and Decay in Kivu p. 240 / Chérie Rivers Ndaliko.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286)
- Description based on information fro mthe publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472127214
- 0472127217
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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