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Music since 1900: Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation
Amy Lynn Wlodarski
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Description for Music since 1900: Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation
hardcover. The first comprehensive study of musical Holocaust representations in the western tradition to examine both musical language and cultural value. Series: Music Since 1900. Num Pages: 251 pages, 7 tables 15 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC6; HBTZ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 678.
This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks that provide key pieces with their unique representational structures and critical receptions. The study examines works composed in a variety of musical languages - from Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic A Survivor from Warsaw to Steve Reich's minimalist Different Trains - and situates them within interdisciplinary discussions about the aesthetics and ethics of artistic witness. At the heart ... Read more
This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks that provide key pieces with their unique representational structures and critical receptions. The study examines works composed in a variety of musical languages - from Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic A Survivor from Warsaw to Steve Reich's minimalist Different Trains - and situates them within interdisciplinary discussions about the aesthetics and ethics of artistic witness. At the heart ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Music Since 1900
Condition
New
Weight
678g
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107116474
SKU
V9781107116474
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About Amy Lynn Wlodarski
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). ... Read more
Reviews for Music since 1900: Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation
'Musicologist Amy Lynn Wlodarski's debut monograph contributes a tremendous intervention to Holocaust witness, memory, and trauma studies. ... The strength of this book lies in Wlodarski's generative contextualization and assessment of her archival findings (especially in the case of Reich's Different Trains), as well as her meticulous deconstruction and synthesis of vast and interdisciplinary literature collections. ... Despite its deceptively ... Read more