Sound, Music, War and Violence: Listening from the Archive

When the sonic remnants of violence and war survive in archives as being inscribed in such media as paper, it can be a challenge to engage with their aurality, all the more because subsequent audiovisual representations might overlay such embodied past experiences with different musical signifiers....

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Main Author:	Annegret Fauser
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage 2020-03-01
Series:	Transposition
Subjects:	archives aurality listening music war violence
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/transposition/4310

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description	When the sonic remnants of violence and war survive in archives as being inscribed in such media as paper, it can be a challenge to engage with their aurality, all the more because subsequent audiovisual representations might overlay such embodied past experiences with different musical signifiers. Drawing on examples from the two world wars of the twentieth century, this contribution discusses which positionalities an author might embrace when listening to war and violence through the presence of music, sound, and silence in the archives.
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Sound, Music, War and Violence: Listening from the Archive

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