Cizmic, Maria - Performing Pain

Performing Pain considers how musical works by late 20th-century avant-garde composers engage with Cold War memory and suffering in 1970s and 80s Eastern Europe. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary range of sources, Maria Cizmic explores how people employ music in order to make sense of historical trauma and loss.

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CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Note on Transliteration and Translation
About the Companion Website
Introduction
Musical Ways of Bearing Witness
Chapter 1
Music of Disruption: Collage and Fragmentation as an Expression of Trauma in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Piano and Strings
Chapter 2
Hammering Hands: Galina Ustvolskaya's Piano Sonata No. 6 and a Hermeneutic of Pain
Chapter 3
Witnessing History during Glasnost: Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa as Musical Testimony in Tengiz Abuladze's Repentance
Chapter 4
Music, Mourning, and War: Gorecki's Third Symphony and the Politics of Remembering
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
Index