TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renata Tańczuk
AU  - Sławomir Wieczorek
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631753460
TI  - Sounds of War and Peace
T2  - Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945
DO  - 10.3726/b13870
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1062455
N2  - This book vividly evokes for the reader the sound world of a number of European cities in the last year of the Second World War. It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experiences of violence, threats and death. Exploiting to the full methodologies and research tools developed in the fields of sound and soundscape studies, the authors analyse their reflections on autobiographical texts and art. The studies demonstrate the role urban sounds played in the inhabitants’ forging a sense of identity as they adapted to new living conditions. The chapters also shed light on the ideological forces at work in the creation of urban sound space.
KW  - sound history, 1945, sound reception, sound and trauma, sound memory, sound studies
LA  - English
ER  -