"Heather Wiebe's astute new monograph Britten's Unquiet Pasts shows how Britten's patriotic project dovetailed both with a nostalgic turn in postwar English tastes and with the nation's more forward-looking cultura
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 mem...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction (Music since 1900) | Heather Wiebe. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
