Britten's Unquiet Pasts

Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

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Heather Wiebe

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Music Since 1900

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Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.

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Heather Wiebe is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Virginia. A member of the editorial board of The Opera Quarterly, she has published widely on twentieth-century music, British musical culture and opera.

Release date NZ

October 4th, 2012

Author

Heather Wiebe

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

31 Printed music items; 1 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

250

Series

Music Since 1900

Dimensions

170x244x16

ISBN-13

9780521194679

Product ID

19852766

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