Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Jay Winter
• Introduction: Rethinking post-war transitions from a musical perspective
• Anais Flechet, Martin Guerpin, Philippe Gumplowicz, Barbara L. Kelly
• Part I: Reconstructing the Music World
• Chapter 1. Emerging from the turmoil: Georges Bizet in the early 1870s
• Herve Lacombe
• Chapter 2. A Post-Revolutionary Musical Order: Mexico, 1910-1930
• Pablo Palomino
• Chapter 3. First Concerts on Familiar Ground? The Post-War International Comebacks of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, 1947/48
• Friedemann Pestel
• Part II: A gradual demobilisation: music, cultures of war and national imaginations
• Chapter 4. Discourse on music and the post-war transition: The case of France after the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870-1871
• Emmanuel Reibel
• Chapter 5. Singing about war and the enemy after a conflict: Two post-war transitions in France (1871, 1914-1918) at the cafe-concert and the music hall
• Martin Guerpin
• Chapter 6. From Coeuroy to Celine: Popular music in the 'war of good taste' during the false post-conflict transition period, 1940-1942
• Philippe Gumplowicz
• Chapter 7. Wars, Ethnic Conflicts and the Political Use of Folk Music
• Michael Wedekind
• Part III: Memory, mourning and commemoration
• Chapter 8. Beranger's Napoleonic songs: mourning, memory and the future
• Sophie-Anne Leterrier
• Chapter 9. Paul Hindemith's Minimax and the Trauma of War
• Lesley Hughes
• Chapter 10. A transatlantic repertoire of resistance and mourning in the post-war years: The songs from the ghettos and camps collected by Shmerke Kaczerginski (Vilnius, New York, Buenos Aires)
• Jean-Sebastien Noel
• Part IV: Music for peace and reconciliation?
• Chapter 11. 'Congress never works better than when it dances': Music, Peacemaking, and Congress Diplomacy, 1814-1856
• Damien Mahiet
• Chapter 12. Internationalism and Musical Exchange in post-World-War 1 Europe
• Barbara L. Kelly
• Chapter 13. Music and peace-building? The creation of the International Music Council (1946-1950)
• Anais Flechet
• Chapter 14. Singing the unspeakable in Rwanda in the summer of 1994: Music in the context of the genocidal abyss through a portrait of the artist
• Assumpta Mugiraneza and Benjamin Chemouni
• Postface: The Quest for Harmony?Music and post-war transitions from international perspective
• Jessica Gienow-Hecht