Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950 Anderton Abby
Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950 Anderton Abby As the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns…
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Rubble Music: Occupying the Ruins of Postwar Berlin, 1945-1950 Anderton Abby
As the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World War II. After the war's end, this apocalyptic landscape captured the imagination of artists, filmmakers, and writers, who used the ruins to engage with themes of alienation, disillusionment, and moral ambiguity. Air raids shelled celebrated monuments, left homes uninhabitable, and reduced much of the city to nothing but rubble.
Anderton reveals how rubble functioned as a literal, figurative, psychological, and sonic element by examining the resonances of trauma heard in the German musical repertoire after 1945. In Rubble Music, Abby Anderton explores the classical music culture of postwar Berlin, analyzing archival documents, period sources, and musical scores to identify the sound of civilian suffering after urban catastrophe. With detailed