Britten's Unquiet Pasts
- First published:
- 21st century
- Language: English
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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| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
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OpenAlex scholarly book record | 2012-10-04 | Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press eBooks | English | — | Unknown |
Subjects
- History
- Social Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
- Art
- Archaeology
- Sociology
- Sociology and Political Science
- Political science
- Art history
- Law
- Aesthetics
- MAGIC (telescope)
- Visual arts
- Music
- Media studies
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Irish and British Studies
- World War II
- Museology
- Musical
- Memorialization
- Historical Art and Culture Studies
- Coronation
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