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E-book Sounds of War and Peace : Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945

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World War II radically altered the image of many European cities. Some, like Warsaw and Dresden, were almost completely destroyed, and became symbols both of war-time barbarism and of the recuperative power of their respective nations. Others, like Wroc?aw (previously Breslau) and Lviv (previously Lwów-Lvov), were assigned by the signatories of international treaties to a different state, and consequently gained new populations. For many inhabitants of European cities, 1945 was a year of hope and of a return to normality; for others, however, it was the year when they were forced to leave the place they called home. ese dramatic changes marked people’s lives. ey also affected the sensual experience of city life, as soundscapes underwent radical transformations.We asked researchers representing various disciplines and academic centres about the specic qualities of European city soundscapes in that watershed year when war came to an end, the reception of those soundscapes and their represen-tation in autobiographical texts and in art. is topic is important to us for both scientic and personal reasons. We live in Wroc?aw – a city which until May 1945 was the German Breslau. Toward the end of World War II, this city was converted into a fortress, the defence of which cost the lives of many thousands of its inhabit-ants and led to destruction on an enormous scale. e Germans – who had lived in Breslau for many generations – were displaced and exiled. eir place was taken by our grandparents and relatives, among others, whose task it became to rebuild and to grow accustomed to this unfamiliar, “alien” city. Wroc?aw’s unique history of transformation has inspired us – as researchers specialising in contemporary and historical soundscapes, in cultural phenomena and sound studies1– to address the issues mentioned above.

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780.947 TAN s

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Switzerland : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

272 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783631753460

Klasifikasi

780.947

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text

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computer

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online resource

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