Sounds of War and Peace
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Sounds of War and Peace

Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sounds of War and Peace

Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945

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Yes, you can access Sounds of War and Peace by Maciej Golab, Renata Tanczuk, Slawomir Wieczorek in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Music. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Barking and blaring: City sounds in wartime (Annelies Jacobs)
  5. Roaring war and silent peace? Initial reflections on the soundscape in the Ruhr between area bombing and reconstruction (Uta C. Schmidt)
  6. The sounds of Warsaw in 1945: Witness accounts (Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek)
  7. In search of lost sounds: Miron Bialoszewski’s “Stare zycie” and post-war silence (Jadwiga Zimpel)
  8. The voice of Polish Radio in the soundscape of Warsaw in 1945 (Kamila Stasko-Mazur)
  9. The voices of a liberated/occupied city: The Lviv soundscape of 1944–1946 in RyszardGansiniec’s journal (Zoriana Rybchynska)
  10. The soundscape of public space in Breslau during the period of National Socialism (Karolina Jara)
  11. From “love in the bright moonlight” to “the corner of dreams”: A snapshot of the soundscape of Wroclaw in 1945 (Andrzej Debski)
  12. The 1945 soundscape of Wroclaw in the accounts of its post-war inhabitants (Renata Tanczuk)
  13. Calls for help and the sounds of pot-banging in the soundscape of ruined Wroclaw in 1945 (Slawomir Wieczorek)
  14. Waves of Remembrance: Wroclaw in Radio Sounds. Broadcasting from the past (Dorota Blaszczak)
  15. The soundtrack for the art installation ‘Glitter’: An attempt to reconstruct the soundscape of a post-war cinema in Wroclaw within the context of experimental electronic music (Daniel Brozek)
  16. The muteness of war-time trauma: A nonverbal perspective on the relationship between trauma and soundscape (Dorian Lange)
  17. Authors