Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust"Sounds of Survival tells a story of unexpected musical continuity across some of the twentieth century's most cataclysmic events. It examines an integrated Polish-Jewish musical community as its members contended with antisemitism in the 1930s, were persecuted during the Nazi occupation, and attempted to establish a renewed musical culture from the ashes of World War II and the Holocaust. Attending to these musicians from the 1920s into the 1950s, the book is a rigorous examination of Jewishness within twentieth-century Polish classical music, and the first to examine how the Holocaust was a defining event for the country's musical culture. J. Mackenzie Pierce argues that despite the nearly unimaginable violence experienced by these musicians, many of their projects and ideals were reinvited and preserved across war and genocide. Thus, he rejects the common assumption that World War II and the Holocaust were epoch-defining ruptures in Polish, Jewish, and European culture, instead showing that the midcentury was a period of fervent reinvention and cultural development in response to trauma"-- |
Contents
Imagining Cultural Continuity in | 1 |
Illustrations figures | 10 |
Musical Belonging and Its Limits | 25 |
MAPS | 26 |
Cartoon by Jerzy Srokowski 1939 | 28 |
Adolf Chybiński Maria Szczepańska Bronisława Wójcik Keuprulian and Hieronim Feicht ca 1925 | 39 |
The musicians of the Warsaw Philharmonic 1931 | 43 |
Mateusz Gliński welcomes Édouard Ganche to Warsaw 1927 | 45 |
Unearthing the Oyneg Shabes archive 1946 | 110 |
We Must Restructure the Musicians into Soviet Thinking | 137 |
Józef Koffler late 1930s | 148 |
Zofia Lissa late 1942 | 157 |
Synthesizing Socialism | 167 |
Ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto ca 1945 | 170 |
Nowy Świat street in Warsaw ca 1947 | 171 |
Roman Palester 1960s | 184 |
A Civil Society for Music | 50 |
Nadia Boulanger visits the Union of Polish Composers 1967 | 59 |
The Nation Is Now a Matter of Life and Death | 79 |
The Philharmonic of the General Government performs 1944 | 89 |
Still from the film Forbidden Songs 1947 | 96 |
Program of the Dom Sztuki café September 1941 | 104 |
We Cannot Imagine Life without Music | 108 |
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