Rubble Music (eBook)

Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950

Abby Anderton (Autor)

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2019
194 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04244-6 (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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w illus., 7 music exx.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1945 • Allied Air War • Allied Forces • American sector • Berlin • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra • British Sector • Culture • Das Unheimliche • Denazification • Destruction • Eberhard Schmidt • Europe • French Sector • German composers • German victimhood • Germany • Heinz Tiessen • History • Jewish • Max Butting • music • Musical Repertoire • musicology • Occupation • Opera • Operatic Rubble Women • orchestral music • Paul Höffer • Performance • postwar Germany • post-wwii • Radio • reconstruction • Rubble • Rubble Art • Rubble Film • Rubble Literature • Rubble Music • Ruins • Sonic Space • Soviet sector • Staatsoper • Städtische Oper • Trauma • Trümmerfilme • Trümmerfrauen • Trümmerkunst • Trümmerliteratur • Trümmermusik • World War II • WWII • Zero Hour
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04244-5 / 0253042445
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04244-6 / 9780253042446