Performing Commemoration
Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma
Published on 7. October 2020
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-0-472-07466-2 (ISBN)
Description
Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to contemporary violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the #sayhername protests. Whose version of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated question, and music adds further layers to this complexity, particularly music without words. The three sections of this collection look at different facets of musical commemorations and reenactments, focusing on how music can mediate, but also intensify responses to social injustice; how reenactments and their use of music are shifting (and not always toward greater social effectiveness); and how claims for musical authenticity are politicized in various ways. By engaging with critical theory around memory studies and performance studies, the contributors to this volume explore social justice, in, and through music.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
26 illustrations, 3 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-472-07466-2 (9780472074662)
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Persons
Annegret Fauser is Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Michael A. Figueroa is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Michael A. Figueroa is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Content
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
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