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Author_J. Mackenzie Pierce
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520405929
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2025
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sounds of Survival tells a story of unexpected musical continuity across some of the twentieth century's most cataclysmic events. It examines an integrated Polish and Polish Jewish musical community as its members contended with antisemitism in the 1930s, attempted to survive the Nazi occupation, and established a renewed musical culture amid the ashes of World War II and the Holocaust. Reconstructing these musicians' lives from the 1920s into the 1950s, J. Mackenzie Pierce argues that despite nearly unimaginable violence, many Polish musicians treated the war as a time of reinvention and cultural preservation. Their faith that music was a source of cultural continuity, however, also marginalized experiences of wartime loss, especially those of Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Sounds of Survival not only reveals that the Holocaust was a central event within modern Polish musical culture; it also shows why its musical aftermath has been difficult to hear.
J. Mackenzie Pierce is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
