Table of Contents
Introduction
- Crumb, The Winds of Destiny, and Black Angels
- Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1. Analyzing Memory and Trauma in the Music of Crumb
- Methodologies
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- Collective Memory and Trauma
- Death in Wartime
- Collective Memory, Sound, Space, and Place
- Memory and Musical Analysis
- A Crisis of Collective Memory
Chapter 2. Collective Haunting and the Civil War
- Trauma and Memory
- Ghosts and Memory
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- "Beautiful Dreamer"
- "Bringing in the Sheaves"
- "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
- Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Winds of Destiny and the Musical Grotesque
- Collective Civil War Memory
- Victorious Belliphonic
- Creating the Grotesque: Mahler’s Funeral March
- Musical Grotesque
- A Grotesque Musical Memorial
- Conclusion
Chapter 4. Black Angels, The Things They Carried, and the
Vietnam War
- Black Angels Reception
- Notions of Truth and Narrative
- Trauma, Morality, and Blurriness
- Things
- Happening-Truth and Story-Truth
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- "Night of the Electric Insects"
- "Bones and Flutes"
- "Pavana Lachrymae"
- Return
Chapter 5. Place and Subjectivity in Black Angels
- Place, Wilderness, and Nature
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- "Night of the Electric Insects"
- Placelessness
- "Lost Bells"
- God, the Devil, and the Morality of War
- Listening
Chapter 6. Conclusion: Ongoing Crisis
- Ongoing Crisis of Collective Memory
About the Author
Abigail Shupe is an Assistant Professor of
Music Theory at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on
Rameau and experimentation in Enlightenment France and George
Crumb’s music about death and war. She lives in Fort Collins, CO
with her family.