TY - BOOK AU - Cizmic,Maria TI - Performing pain: music and trauma in Eastern Europe SN - 9780190453633 (ebook) : U1 - 780.94709047 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Music KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Psychic trauma in music KW - ukslc KW - Eastern Europe KW - thema KW - Art music, orchestral & formal music KW - United States of America, USA KW - Theory of music & musicology KW - World music & regional styles KW - The Cold War N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 'Performing Pain' uncovers music's relationships to trauma and grief by focusing upon the late 20th century in Eastern Europe; Time after time, people turn to music when coping with traumatic life events. Music can help process emotions, interpret memories, and create a sense of collective identity. In Performing Pain, author Maria Cizmic focuses on the late 20th century in Eastern Europe as she uncovers music's relationships to trauma and grief. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a cultural preoccupation in this region with the meanings of historical suffering, particularly surrounding the Second World War and the Stalinist era. Journalists, historians, writers, artists, and filmmakers frequently negotiated themes related to pain and memory, truth and history, morality and spirituality during glasnost and the years leading up to it. Performing Pain considers how works by composers Alfred Schnittke, Galina Ustvolskaya, Arvo Part, and Henryk Gorecki musically address contemporary concerns regarding history and suffering through composition, performance, and reception. Taking theoretical cues from psychology, sociology, and literary and cultural studies, Cizmic offers a set of hermeneutic essays that demonstrate the ways in which people employ music in order to make sense of historical traumas and losses. Seemingly postmodern compositional choices--such as quotation, fragmentation, and stasis--create musical analogies to psychological and emotional responses to trauma and grief, and the physical realities of their embodied performance focus attention on the ethics of pain and representation. Furthermore, as film music, these works participate in contemporary debates regarding memory and trauma. A comprehensive and innovative study, Performing Pain will fascinate scholars interested in the music of Eastern Europe and in aesthetic articulations of suffering UR - https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestLondon&accId=8832856&isbn=9780190453633 ER -