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Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.

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Author:   Anaïs Fléchet ,  Martin Guerpin ,  Philippe Gumplowicz ,  Barbara L. Kelly
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   10
ISBN:  

9781800738942

ISBN 10:   1800738943
Pages:   321
Publication Date:   01 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Jay Winter Introduction: Rethinking post-war transitions from a musical perspective Anais Flechet, Martin Guerpin, Philippe Gumplowicz, Barbara L. Kelly Part I: Reconstructing the Music World Chapter 1. Emerging from the turmoil: Georges Bizet in the early 1870s Herve Lacombe Chapter 2. A Post-Revolutionary Musical Order: Mexico, 1910-1930 Pablo Palomino Chapter 3. First Concerts on Familiar Ground? The Post-War International Comebacks of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, 1947/48 Friedemann Pestel Part II: A gradual demobilisation: music, cultures of war and national imaginations Chapter 4. Discourse on music and the post-war transition: The case of France after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870-1871 Emmanuel Reibel Chapter 5. Singing about war and the enemy after a conflict: Two post-war transitions in France (1871, 1914-1918) at the cafe-concert and the music hall Martin Guerpin Chapter 6. From Coeuroyto Celine: Popular music in the 'war of good taste' during the false post-conflict transition period, 1940-1942 Philippe Gumplowicz Chapter 7. Wars, Ethnic Conflicts and the Political Use of Folk Music Michael Wedekind Part III: Memory, mourning and commemoration Chapter 8. Beranger's Napoleonic songs: mourning, memory and the future Sophie-Anne Leterrier Chapter 9. Paul Hindemith's Minimax and the Trauma of War Lesley Hughes Chapter 10. A transatlantic repertoire of resistance and mourning in the post-war years: The songs from the ghettos and camps collected by Shmerke Kaczerginski (Vilnius, New York, Buenos Aires) Jean-Sebastien Noel Chapter 11. Singing the unspeakable in Rwanda in the summer of 1994: Music in the context of the genocidal abyss through a portrait of the artist Benjamin Chemouni and Assumpta Mugiraneza Part IV: Music for peace and reconciliation? Chapter 12. 'Congress never works better than when it dances': Music, Peacemaking, and Congress Diplomacy, 1814-1856 Damien Mahiet Chapter 13. Internationalism and Musical Exchange in post-World-War 1 Europe Barbara L. Kelly Chapter 14. Music and peace-building? The creation of the International Music Council (1946-1950) Anais Flechet Postface: The Quest for Harmony?Music and post-war transitions from international perspective Jessica Gienow-Hecht

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Philippe Gumplowicz is Emeritus Professor at the University Paris-Saclay. He previously served as the Head of the Department of Langues Arts Musique and Director of the School of Humanities at University Paris-Saclay.

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