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The sound of hope : music as solace, resistance and salvation during the Holocaust and World War II
- Title
- The sound of hope : music as solace, resistance and salvation during the Holocaust and World War II / Kellie D. Brown.
- Author
- Brown, Kellie D.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- ix, 310 pages : illustrations, portraits; 26 cm
- Summary
- "Since ancient times, music has demonstrated the incomparable ability to touch and resonate with the human spirit as a tool for communication, emotional expression, and as a medium of cultural identity. During World War II, Nazi leadership recognized the power of music and chose to harness it with malevolence, using its power to push their own agenda and systematically stripping it away from the Jewish people and other populations they sought to disempower. But music also emerged as a counterpoint to this hate, withstanding Nazi attempts to exploit or silence it. Artistic expression triumphed under oppressive regimes elsewhere as well, including the horrific siege of Leningrad and in Japanese internment camps in the Pacific. The oppressed stubbornly clung to music, wherever and however they could, to preserve their culture, to uplift the human spirit and to triumph over oppression, even amid incredible tragedy and suffering This volume draws together the musical connections and individual stories from this tragic time through scholarly literature, diaries, letters, memoirs, compositions, and art pieces. Collectively, they bear witness to the power of music and offer a reminder to humanity of the imperative each faces to not only remember, but to prevent such a cataclysm"--
- Subjects
- Nazi concentration camp inmates
- Holocaust victims
- Musicians
- Jewish musicians
- Nazi concentration camps
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 1939-1945
- World War > (1939-1945)
- Europe
- Jews > Music
- Nazi concentration camp inmates > Europe > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Europe
- Nazi concentration camp inmates as musicians > Europe
- Jews > Europe > Music > History and criticism
- Holocaust victims > Europe > Biography
- Musicians > Europe > Biography
- Jewish musicians > Europe > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-303) and index.
- Contents
- The Rise of the Third Reich and its cultural agenda -- Alma Rosé and the women's orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau -- Dr. Herbert Zipper: from Dachau to the world -- Alice Herz-Sommer and the music in Terezin -- Władysław Szpilman and the Warsaw Ghetto -- Olivier Messiaen: a composer confronts the end of time -- Dmitri Shostakovich and the musical redemption of Leningrad -- The Vocal orchestra: female POWs on Sumatra -- Epilogue: Out of the ashes -- the Israel Philharmonic and violins of hope.
- Call Number
- JMF 21-187
- ISBN
- 9781476670560
- 1476670560
- LCCN
- 2020017547
- 99985347598
- OCLC
- 1134074119
- Author
- Brown, Kellie D., author.
- Title
- The sound of hope : music as solace, resistance and salvation during the Holocaust and World War II / Kellie D. Brown.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-303) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99985347598
- Research Call Number
- JMF 21-187