Sound Representations of Memory

The author outlines how memory is treated by contemporary artists, philosophers,
musicians, sociologists, musicologists, as well as victims of the Holocaust...
She paints a rich landscape of how her subject features in the work of
composers and their collaborators, many of whom were motivated by memories
of the Occupation.

Autorentext

Joanna Pos uszna, psychologist and music theorist, assistant professor at the Institute
of Psychology at Maria Curie-Sk odowksa University in Lublin, author of
several books in Polish and English. Her research is mainly focused on the psychology
of music and emotions, memory, and sound in totalitarian institutions.

Inhalt

Introduction - Chapter 1 Review of selected work on the theme of memory - Chapter 2 Szymon Laks - Auschwitz Games - Chapter 3 Stanis aw Wiechowicz - Letter to Marc Chagall - Chapter 4 Marta Ptaszy ska - Holocaust Memorial Cantata - Chapter 5 Zbigniew Bujarski - Burning Bushes, Kinoth, Chamber Composition - Chapter 6 Bernadetta Matuszczak - Humanae Voces - Chapter 7 Arnold Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw - Chapter 8 Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time - Chapter 9 Dmitri Shostakovich - Babi Yar - Chapter 10 Selected issues from the work of Krzysztof Pendereck - Chapter 11 Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima - Chapter 12 Death Brigade - Chapter 13 Oratorium Dies irae - Chapter 14 Kaddish - Chapter 15 Conclusion - Bibliography - Index of Names