Resonances against Fascism : modernist and avant-garde sounds from Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter / Laura Chiesa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiesa, Laura, 1967- author.

Series:

SUNY series, humanities to the rescue.

SUNY series, humanities to the rescue

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism and music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 191 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Resonances against Fascism explores some of the myriad ways music and, more broadly, sound have emerged from, and been mobilized to address, the urgencies of the present, from modernism to today. Taking the works and life of the German-born composer Kurt Weill as a pivotal point of departure, the collection brings together a range of critical voices, each with a singular tone, to demonstrate the pervasive force of sound in the face of fascism. Across eight essays, contributors sound out the anti-authoritarian resonances of modernist and avant-garde aesthetics from Weill to Nina Simone and Chico Buarque, to Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Godard, to Lou Reed and Patti Smith, and to the choral chants of the Black Lives Matter Movement. The second volume in the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today, Resonances against Fascism takes its cue from the disruptive force of music in traversing the boundaries between--and engaging readers from--modernist and avant-garde studies, critical and cultural theory, musicology and sound studies, critical race and gender studies, performance studies, and philosophy." -- Publisher's desciption.

Contents:

Introduction. Resonant listening : sound and music to the rescue / Laura Chiesa Political (effort/exhaustion) / James Currie "[C]ounting your heads / as I'm making the beds" : piratesthetics, Weill-Brecht to Simone / Jacques Lezra Sonic ordeals : music, torture, and The new Orpheus / Peter Szendy What makes Weill Weill? / Kim H. Kowalke A walk on the Weill side : musical theater and rock music in the 1960s / William Solomon Marguerite Duras's musical return of the real / Fernanda Negrete Outside in : chorus and clearing in the time of pandemic and protest / Julie Beth Napolin Afterword. Sounding silence, sounding thought / Krzysztof Ziarek.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781438496313

1438496311