| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Music since 1900
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Music since 1900.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Music and cultural renewal -- "Today on earth the angels sing": carols in wartime -- Realizing Purcell -- Gloriana and the "New Elizabethans" -- Remembering faith in Noye's Fludde -- Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Music -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Great Britain.
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Reconstruction (1939-1951) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wiebe, Heather. Britten's unquiet pasts. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9780521194679 (DLC) 2012015504 (OCoLC)786461122 |
| ISBN |
9781139568654 (electronic book) |
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1139568655 (electronic book) |
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9780511978951 (electronic book) |
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0511978952 (electronic book) |
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9780521194679 |
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0521194679 |
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