Sounds of war and peace : soundscapes of European cities in 1945 /
This book vividly evokes for the reader the sound world of a number of European cities in the last year of the Second World War. It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experience...
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| Published: | Berlin : Peter Lang, [2018] 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 268 sidor illustrationer |
| Item Description: | Innehåller bibliografi |
| Summary: | This book vividly evokes for the reader the sound world of a number of European cities in the last year of the Second World War. It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experiences of violence, threats and death. Exploiting to the full methodologies and research tools developed in the fields of sound and soundscape studies, the authors analyse their reflections on autobiographical texts and art. The studies demonstrate the role urban sounds played in the inhabitants’ forging a sense of identity as they adapted to new living conditions. The chapters also shed light on the ideological forces at work in the creation of urban sound space |
| Genre/Form: | Samlingsverk |
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| Dewey Classification: | 940.534 |
| SAB Classification: | Ka.54 |
| ISBN: | 9783631753361 |
| Format: | Book |
| Series: | Eastern European Studies in Musicology ;
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Table of Contents:
- Barking and blaring: city sounds in wartime / Annelies Jacobs
- Roaring war and silent peace? Initial reflections on the soundscape in the Ruhr between area bombing and reconstruction / Uta C. Schmidt – The sounds of Warsaw in 1945: witness accounts / Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek – In search of lost sounds: Miron Białoszewski’s “Stare życie“ and post-war silence / Jadwiga Zimpel – The voice of Polish Radio in the soundscape of Warsaw in 1945 / Kamila Staśko-Mazur – The voices of a liberated/occupied city: the Lviv soundscape of 1944-1946 in Ryszard Gansiniec’s journal / Zoriana Rybchynska – The soundscape of public space in Breslau during the period of National Socialism / Karolina Jara – From “love in the bright moonlight” to “the corner of dreams”: a snapshot of the soundscape of Wrocław in 1945 / Andrzej Dębski – The 1945 soundscape of Wrocław in the accounts of its post-war inhabitants / Renata Tańczuk – Calls for help and the sounds of pot-banging in the soundscape of ruined Wrocław in 1945 / Sławomir Wieczorek – Waves of remembrance: Wrocław in Radio Sounds. Broadcasting from the past / Dorota Błaszczak – The soundtrack of war-time trauma: a nonverbal perspective on the relationship between trauma and soundscape / Daniel Brożek – The muteness of war-time trauma: a nonverbal perspective on the relationship between trauma and soundscape / Dorian Lange