Resonant recoveries French music and trauma between the world wars

'Resonant Recoveries' illustrates that coping with trauma was a central concern for French musicians active after World War I. The losses and violent warfare of World War I shaped how interwar French musicians - from those fighting in the trenches and working in military hospitals to more...

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Main Author: Rogers, Jillian C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2021, 2021
Series:Oxford scholarship online / Oxford scholarship online
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:'Resonant Recoveries' illustrates that coping with trauma was a central concern for French musicians active after World War I. The losses and violent warfare of World War I shaped how interwar French musicians - from those fighting in the trenches and working in military hospitals to more well-known musicians - engaged with music. Situated at the intersections of musicology, history, sound and performance studies, and psychology and trauma studies, this book argues that modernists' compositions and musical activities were sonorous locations for managing and performing trauma
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2021
Physical Description:400 pages illustrations (black and white, and colour)
ISBN:9780190658328