What is it about?
This paper examines two immediate post-Holocaust music collections: a small song book printed in Bucharest in 1945, and a series of recordings made in displaced persons camps in 1946.
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Why is it important?
This is a unique perspective on the immediate post war experience of survivors, and how they expressed their experiences during the war in musical terms. It is important because it uses fragile objects to demonstrate how construction of survivor identity developed through cultural and communicative means.
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This work is vital for my practice, because it demonstrates the importance of bringing objects that are often seen as historically important into the present, in order to discover if what they embody has resonance in our lives today.
Joseph Toltz
University of Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Out of the Depths: Complexity, Subjectivity and Materiality in the Earliest Accounts of Holocaust Song-Making, East European Jewish Affairs, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13501674.2018.1559695.
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