Rubble Music

Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945–1950

Abby Anderton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2019
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04242-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Abby Anderton is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Berlin Soundscapes of Defeat and Occupation

2. Occupied Music: The Berlin Philharmonic and the American Military

3. Rubble Opera after 1945: East Berlin's Staatsoper and West Berlin's Städtische Oper

4. Embodied and Disembodied Voices: Listening to Sonic Ruins

5. Berlin 1945: Towards a Ruin Aesthetic in Music

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	20 b&w illus., 7 music exx. - 20 Illustrations, black and white - 7 Printed music items
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-253-04242-9 / 0253042429
ISBN-13	978-0-253-04242-2 / 9780253042422
Zustand	Neuware