Audible Testimonies : Surviving the Third Reich in Music and Media.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderton, Abby.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Audible Testimonies considers music and sound in relation to surviving the Holocaust and Third Reich, engaging with new sources and largely unknown musicians. The book adds to the growing literature on music trauma studies by providing a model for analyzing sounding testimonies. In particular, it considers women's testimonies through their postwar singing and original songs. The voice thus becomes a site of trauma and an instrument for working through it. As the performances and compositions of survivor musicians reveal, music making provided a rare public platform for individuals to share their traumatic experiences of Nazi terror.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Witness as Music / Music as Witness

Music and Therapy

Chapter Outline

1 "The Avenue of Hearing": Silent Images, Sounding Testimonies

The Sounding Survivor: Music and Testimony

Living With/Working Through: Repetition, Music, and Trauma

2 The Musical Score and Testimony: The Songs of Ludmila Peškařová and Inge Lammel

The Ravensbrück Songs

The Poet of Ravensbrück: Ludmila Peškařová

Melodies to Remember, Memories to Forget

3 Performing Sonic Testimony: Musical Re-enactment and the Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra

Displaced Music

The Sound of Re-enactment

An Orchestra of Survivors/Orchestrating Survival

Leonard Bernstein and the Representative Orchestra

4 The Singing Survivor: Testimony and Voice in the Songs of Fasia Jansen and Lin Jaldati

Sounding, Singing, Surviving

Survival Songs in Performance

Lin Jaldati (1912-1988)

Fasia Jansen (1929-1997)

Section 2: The Survivor Voice on Film, 1965-1985

Lin Jaldati Sings (1962)

Fasia: Of Defiant Women and a Troubadour (1987)

Conclusions

5 Inaudible Music, Latent Testimonies: The Lives and Work of Ella Jonas-Stockhausen and Erich Adler

Ella Jonas-Stockhausen

Erich Adler (1911-1982)

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-781123-X

OCLC:

1581155674