Britten's unquiet pasts : sound and memory in postwar reconstruction /

Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiebe, Heather
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Music since 1900.
Temas:
Britten, Benjamin, > 1913-1976 > Criticism and interpretation.
Britten, Benjamin, > 1913-1976
1900-1999
Music > Great Britain > 20th century > History and criticism.
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 > Music and the war.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 > Grande-Bretagne.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Musique et guerre.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Music
Music and war
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Music and cultural renewal
  • "Today on earth the angels sing": carols in wartime
  • Realizing Purcell
  • Gloriana and the "New Elizabethans"
  • Remembering faith in Noye's Fludde
  • Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry.

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