Britten's Unquiet Pasts
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Britten's Unquiet Pasts

Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

Heather Wiebe

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Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

Heather Wiebe

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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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781139574662
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Opera Music

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