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War and Death in the Music of George Crumb Abigail Shupe

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb By Abigail Shupe

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb by Abigail Shupe

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Summary

This book studies Crumb's Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb's output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges to traditional narratives of the Civil War and the Vietnam War.

War and Death in the Music of George Crumb Summary

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

  • This book studies George Crumb's Winds of Destiny (2004) and Black Angels (1970) as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb's output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges to traditional narratives of the Civil War and the Vietnam War.
  • This book shows how this association began and how it endures through connections to iconic Vietnam War media, including films and books.
  • Together these analyses show the legacy of trauma in American collective memory, which is in a continuous crisis. \\This book will be of interest to students of contemporary American music, American studies, and memory studies. It benefits readers by newly situating Crumb's music within these three fields of study.

About Abigail Shupe

Abigail Shupe is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on Rameau and experimentation in Enlightenment France and George Crumb's music about death and war. She lives in Fort Collins, CO with her family.

Table of Contents

Introduction

  • Crumb, The Winds of Destiny, and Black Angels
  • Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1. Analyzing Memory and Trauma in the Music of Crumb

  • Methodologies

    • Collective Memory and Trauma
    • 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. The 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

  • Place, Wilderness, and Nature

    • Night of the Electric Insects

    • Placelessness

    • Lost Bells

  • God, the Devil, and the Morality of War

  • Listening

Chapter 6. Conclusion: Ongoing Crisis

  • Ongoing Crisis of Collective Memory

Additional information

NPB9780367762100
9780367762100
0367762102
War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory by Abigail Shupe
Abigail Shupe
Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-09-02
164
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