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Summary:

"Coping with trauma and the losses of World War I was a central concern for French musicians in the interwar period. Almost all of them were deeply affected by the war as they fought in the trenches, worked in military hospitals, or mourned a friend or relative who had been wounded, killed, or taken prisoner. In Resonant Recoveries, author Jillian C. Rogers argues that French modernist composers processed this experience of unprecedented violence by turning their musical activities into locations for managing and performing trauma. Through analyses of archival materials, French medical, philosophical, and literary texts, and the music produced between the wars, Rogers frames World War I as a pivotal moment in the history of music therapy. As musicians and their audiences used music to remember lost loved ones, perform grief, create healing bonds of friendship, and find consolation in soothing sonic vibrations and rhythmic bodily movements, they reconfigured music into an embodied means of consolation--a healer of wounded minds and bodies. This in-depth account of the profound impact that postwar trauma had on French musical life makes a powerful case for the importance of addressing trauma, mourning, and people's emotional lives in music scholarship"--Book jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. "La plus grande consolatrice" : Music as a corporeal technology of consolation in Interwar France
• Music making as emotional care : Negotiating trauma, expressional norms, and politics in wartime France
• Embodying sonic resonance as/after trauma : Vibration, music, and medicine
• Soothing movements : The consolatory potential of musique dépouillé's rhythm and repetition
• In search of a consolatory past : Grief and embodied musical memory
• Rire as release and rapport : Pleasure and laughter in French Interwar musical theater
• Conclusion. Touched by music making : Intimacy and love in the wake of trauma.

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Jillian C. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Main Work:

Resonant recoveries: French music and trauma between the world wars [by Rogers, J.C.]

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918 — France — Music and the war

Music — France — Psychological aspects — History — 20th century

Music — France — 20th century — History and criticism

World War, 1914-1918 — France — Psychological aspects

World War (1914-1918)

1900-1999

Music

Psychological aspects

Music — Psychological aspects

France

Genres:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

ML3917.F8 R65 2021

ISBNs:

9780190658298 (hardcover)
0190658290 (hardcover)
9780190658311 (electronic publication) [Invalid]
9780190658328 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020029605

OCLC Numbers:

1163949252