War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory

Contents

• Introduction
• Crumb, Black Angels, and Winds of Destiny
• Chapter Summaries
• Chapter 1. Analysing Memory and Trauma in the Music of Crumb
• Methodologies
• Death in Wartime
• Collective Memory, Sound, Space, and Place
• Memory and Musical Analysis
• A Crisis of Collective Memory
• Chapter 2. Collective Haunting and the Civil War
• Trauma and Memory
• Ghosts and Memory
• "Beautiful Dreamer"
• "Bringing in the Sheaves"
• "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Winds of Destiny and the Musical Grotesque
• Collective Civil War Memory
• Victorious Belliphonic
• Creating the Grotesque: Mahler's Funeral March
• Musical Grotesque
• A Grotesque Musical Memorial
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4. Black Angels, The Things They Carried, and the Vietnam War
• Black Angels Reception
• Notions of Truth and Narrative
• Trauma, Morality, and Blurriness
• Things
• Happening-Truth and Story-Truth
• "Night of the Electric Insects"
• "Bones and Flutes"
• "Pavana Lachrymae"
• Return
• Chapter 5. Place and Subjectivity in Black Angels
• Darkness, Nature, Place, and Placelessness
• Jungle Wilderness
• "Night of the Electric Insects"
• Placelessness and Darkness
• "Lost Bells"
• God, the Devil, and the Morality of War
• Listening
• Chapter 6. Conclusion: Ongoing Crisis
• Ongoing Crisis of Collective Memory