Contents: v
Acknowledgments: vii
Introduction | Annegret Fauser and Michael A. Figueroa: 1
Trauma, Survival, and Musical Commemoration: 17
1. Ensounding Trauma, Performing Commemoration: Western Music in Time of War and Tumults | Annegret Fauser: 19
2. Commemorating Performance, the Cabaretesque, and History Inside Out | Philip V. Bohlman: 41
3. Music Commemorating the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings | Noriko Manabe: 68
Mediation, Memory, and Musical Reenactment: 95
4. An Anthem for the AMIA Cause: Leon Gieco's "La Memoria" and Public Assembly in the Benefit Music Video from Argentina | Lillian M. Wohl: 97
5. Musical Memory, Animated Amnesia: The Soundtrack of Exoneration in Waltz with Bashir | Michael A. Figueroa: 121
6. Say Her Name: Invocation, Remembrance, and Gendered Trauma in Black Lives Matter | Imani Danielle Mosley: 142
Possibilities and Impossibilities of Commemoration: Trauma's Persistence and the Politics of Reenactment: 163
7. Songs of Flight: War and Genocide Reenactment on the Refugee Route | Vanessa Agnew: 165
8. Overwriting Sound: Polish Commemoration in Concert | Andrea F. Bohlman: 193
9. Music and the Mediation of Remembrance: Reflections on the Commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide | Sylvia Angelique Alajaji: 219
10. The Accidental Archivists: Memory, Resonance, and Decay in Kivu | Cherie Rivers Ndaliko: 240
Afterword: Musical Commemoration and the Imagination of the Future | Kay Kaufman Shelemay: 263
Bibliography: 269
Contributors: 287
Index: 293
