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Britten'S Unquiet Pasts - Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction (Book)
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Britten'S Unquiet Pasts - Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction (Book)
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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 notions of history and
community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of
mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and
as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using
a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism,
public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a
set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant
musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction,
including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II
and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.
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