Rubble Music : Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945–1950 / / Abby Anderton

• Autore: Anderton Abby
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 pages)
• Disciplina: 780.94315509044
• Soggetto topico: Nachkriegszeit; Musikleben; Klassische Musik; Music; Music - Germany - Berlin - 20th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Berlin; Germany Berlin
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Berlin soundscapes of defeat and occupation -- Occupied music: the Berlin Philharmonic and the American military -- Rubble opera after 1945: East Berlin's Staatsoper and West Berlin's Städtische Oper -- Embodied and disembodied voices: listening to sonic ruins -- Berlin 1945: toward a ruin aesthetic in music -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: As the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World War II. Air raids shelled celebrated monuments, left homes uninhabitable, and reduced much of the city to nothing but rubble. After the war's end, this apocalyptic landscape captured the imagination of artists, filmmakers, and writers, who used the ruins to engage with themes of alienation, disillusionment, and moral ambiguity. In Rubble Music , Abby Anderton explores the classical music culture of postwar Berlin, analyzing archival documents, period sources, and musical scores to identify the sound of civilian suffering after urban catastrophe. Anderton reveals how rubble functioned as a literal, figurative, psychological, and sonic element by examining the resonances of trauma heard in the German musical repertoire after 1945. With detailed explorations of reconstituted orchestral ensembles, opera companies, and radio stations, as well as analyses of performances and compositions that were beyond the reach of the Allied occupiers, Anderton demonstrates how German musicians worked through, cleared away, or built over the debris and devastation of the war.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rubble Music
• ISBN: 0-253-04244-5; 0-253-04243-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956766203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II