The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group is a discursive space for scholars of music after 1945, with an emphasis on the modernist, experimental, and avant-garde. Through its annual meetings and online communications, the group aims to strengthen, support, and develop its members’ ideas and sense of community. It also seeks to bring attention to and foster scholarship on post-1945 music both within the Society for Music Theory and in music scholarship at large.

Fascism/Trauma and Analysis of Literally “Post-War” Music

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    • 25 November 2023 at 12:51 pm EST #75671

      Laurel Parsons
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      Hi, everyone. For the past few years I’ve been working intermittently on the music of Danish electroacoustic pioneer Else Marie Pade (1924-2016), who in 1944 at the age of 19 was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned for 8 months because of her participation in an all-female resistance group. Specifically, my research has focused on a couple of her musique concrete pieces and trauma theory (particularly as it pertains to war trauma). The later piece–Face It (1970)–interweaves repeated warnings in Danish (“We must see with our eyes–Hitler is not dead”) with increasingly long snippets of a recording of Hitler’s 1934 speech to the Reichstag justifying the Night of the Long Knives. It’s a chilling piece, and given the current political climate, all too timely.

      I’m wondering if anyone else is working on related topics; if so, it would be great to connect.

      Best to all,

      Laurel Parsons, University of British Columbia

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