Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma
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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 how music is used to commemorate, contemplate, and unsettle narratives around conflict and trauma. The case studies included in this edited volume range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to contemporary violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the ongoing marginalization of black women and the silencing of their voices in the United States. Whose version of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated question, and music adds further layers to this complexity. 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. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:047205466X
ISBN13:9780472054664
Release Date:October 2020
Publisher:University of Michigan Press
Length:308 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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