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 the roles music can play in public
commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian
genocide and World War I to contemporary violence in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo and the #sayhername protests. Whose version
of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated
question, and music adds further layers to this complexity,
particularly music without words. 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.
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