"Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of the idea of 'postwar transition' in the field of music and to demonstrate how the contribution of musicians, composers, and their publics have influenced contemporary understandings of war. At the intersection of four domains including: the relationship between music and war culture, commemorative and consolatory dimensions of music, migration and exile, and the links between music, cultural diplomacy, and propaganda, leading historians, political scientists, psychologists, and musicologists explore disruptions and connections to music through the backdrop of war. In turn, this volume sheds new light on what has been a blind spot in a growing historiography"--
Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of the idea of postwar transition in the field of music and to demonstrate how the contribution of musicians, composers, and their publics have influenced contemporary understandings of war. At the intersection of four domains including: the relationship between music and war culture, commemorative and consolatory dimensions of music, migration and exile, and the links between music, cultural diplomacy, and propaganda, leading historians, political scientists, psychologists, and musicologists explore disruptions and connections to music through the backdrop war. In turn, this volume sheds new light on what has been a blind spot in a growing historiography.
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Jay Winter
Introduction: Rethinking post-war transitions from a musical perspective
Anaļs Fléchet, Martin Guerpin, Philippe Gumplowicz, Barbara L. Kelly
Part I: Reconstructing the Music World
Chapter
1. Emerging from the turmoil: Georges Bizet in the early 1870s
Hervé Lacombe
Chapter
2. A Post-Revolutionary Musical Order: Mexico, 1910-1930
Pablo Palomino
Chapter
3. First Concerts on Familiar Ground? The Post-War International
Comebacks of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, 1947/48
Friedemann Pestel
Part II: A gradual demobilisation: music, cultures of war and national
imaginations
Chapter
4. Discourse on music and the post-war transition: The case of
France after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870-1871
Emmanuel Reibel
Chapter
5. Singing about war and the enemy after a conflict: Two post-war
transitions in France (1871, 1914-1918) at the café-concert and the music
hall
Martin Guerpin
Chapter
6. From Curoyto Céline: Popular music in the war of good taste
during the false post-conflict transition period, 1940-1942
Philippe Gumplowicz
Chapter
7. Wars, Ethnic Conflicts and the Political Use of Folk Music
Michael Wedekind
Part III: Memory, mourning and commemoration
Chapter
8. Bérangers Napoleonic songs: mourning, memory and the future
SophieAnne Leterrier
Chapter
9. Paul Hindemiths Minimax and the Trauma of War
Lesley Hughes
Chapter
10. A transatlantic repertoire of resistance and mourning in the
post-war years: The songs from the ghettos and camps collected by Shmerke
Kaczerginski (Vilnius, New York, Buenos Aires)
Jean-Sébastien Noėl
Chapter
11. Singing the unspeakable in Rwanda in the summer of 1994: Music
in the context of the genocidal abyss through a portrait of the artist
Benjamin Chemouni and Assumpta Mugiraneza
Part IV: Music for peace and reconciliation?
Chapter
12. Congress never works better than when it dances: Music,
Peacemaking, and Congress Diplomacy, 1814-1856
Damien Mahiet
Chapter
13. Internationalism and Musical Exchange in post-World-War 1
Europe
Barbara L. Kelly
Chapter
14. Music and peacebuilding? The creation of the International
Music Council (1946-1950)
Anaļs Fléchet
Postface: The Quest for Harmony?Music and postwar transitions from
international perspective
Jessica Gienow-Hecht
Anaļs Fléchet is Associate professor in International History at the University Paris-Saclay, and member of the research team Centre dhistoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines. Her research focuses on music, international history, Brazil and the Global South.