Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture
Tina Frühauf and Lily Hirsch
Abstract
This book is devoted to Jewish music in Germany from 1945 to the turn of the twenty-first century, with pioneering recent research on its presence (actual, symbolic, or transnational) and perceptions. As such, the volume draws together three significant areas of inquiry: Jewish music, German culture, and the legacy of the Holocaust. Taking these subjects as a point of departure, the chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics, from music in the displaced persons camps in the immediate postwar period to compositions conceived in response to the Holocaust in the later twentish century and the klezm ... More
This book is devoted to Jewish music in Germany from 1945 to the turn of the twenty-first century, with pioneering recent research on its presence (actual, symbolic, or transnational) and perceptions. As such, the volume draws together three significant areas of inquiry: Jewish music, German culture, and the legacy of the Holocaust. Taking these subjects as a point of departure, the chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics, from music in the displaced persons camps in the immediate postwar period to compositions conceived in response to the Holocaust in the later twentish century and the klezmer revival at the turn of this century. Using oral history, musical analysis, and hermeneutics and other methodologies pertinent to music historians and ethnomusicologists, the book builds on recent scholarship in Cold War studies, cultural history, German studies, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, and memory studies. What binds them tightly together, however, are specific theoretical inquiries that reflect upon separate yet interrelated themes of displacement, politics, and memory.
Keywords:
Jewish music,
musicology,
displacement,
Holocaust memory,
Nazi-era musicology,
displaced person,
DP,
klezmer music,
represence,
Holocaust survivor,
Yiddish song,
memory work
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199367481 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199367481.001.0001 |
