{"product_id":"audible-loss-new-music-and-the-crisis-of-memory-paperback-softback-9781531508692","title":"Audible Loss; New Music and the Crisis of Memory (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531508692","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAudible Loss\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Music and the Crisis of Memory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrea Zarafshon Moore (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531508692\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 2 images and 8 music examples\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.322 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9\/11, and anti-Black violence in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. \u003ci\u003eAudible Loss \u003c\/i\u003eexamines musical responses to three major crises in US society at the turn of the twenty-first century: the AIDS epidemic, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ongoing conditions of anti-Black violence.\u003cbr\u003e Analyzing a range of works written to commemorate these losses, Andrea Zarafshon Moore explores how contemporary classical music (aka \"new music\") frames and narrates these crises, gives voice to grief, imagines other possibilities, and makes loss audible. These crises are read alongside one another to reveal the ways they are mutually imbricated, while also recognizing the sheer commemorative dominance of 9\/11 in this century. Attending to broader debates and discourses through which commemoration is always filtered and the ways interpretive consensus has been sought and articulated in both musical and other memorial forms, Moore probes the conventional claims of commemoration, particularly those for the necessity of remembrance to \"healing\" and the prevention of future crises.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAudible Loss \u003c\/i\u003econcludes by reflecting on the limits of existing commemorative forms and the possibility, even necessity, of new ones. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, it proposes that while memorials of all kinds may provide outlets for collective remembrance and even mourning, their power to forge a sense of collectivity is diminished as public discourse grows more fragmented. Deeply informed yet highly approachable, \u003ci\u003eAudible Loss \u003c\/i\u003eis a major contribution to the fields of music and memory studies and essential reading for anyone interested in memory culture in the United States today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Music, Crisis, Memory   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eAbsent Names, Present Lives: Art Song as Intimate Memory   25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eSounding Witness: Musical Testimony and Memorial Stakes   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eLoss Without Words: Musical Memory Beyond the Discourse   91\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eEnvisioning the Present: Music as Speculative Imagination   122\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: All the Trembling Bells   153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  171\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  217\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619267440920,"sku":"9781531508692","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/audible-loss-new-music-and-the-crisis-of-memory-paperback-softback-9781531508692","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}