{"product_id":"audible-testimonies-surviving-the-third-reich-in-music-and-media-hardcover","title":"Audible Testimonies: Surviving the Third Reich in Music and Media - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbby Anderton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the first Holocaust testimonies involved music. Yet despite the central role that music played in the traumatic aftermath of the Third Reich, it was not perceived as testimonial. \u003cem\u003eAudible Testimonies: Surviving the Third Reich in Music and Media\u003c\/em\u003e explores the early postwar sounds of survivor musicians in Germany, demonstrating that their compositions, recordings, and performances were forms of witnessing. Individuals persecuted by the Nazis, including Jewish Holocaust survivors, political prisoners, Communist resistance fighters, and members of the Black German community, intentionally documented their experiences with music. Whether the Terezín memory pieces of Erich Adler, Fasia Jansen's musical protests, or the Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra's appearances in their striped uniforms, sounding testimonies gave musicians who survived the Third Reich a public, audible platform. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir stylistic choices were as varied as their experiences, heard in the jazz, folk, pop, and classical music they performed in displaced persons camps, the Nuremberg Opera House, and at the first Eurovision Song Contest. These eye- and earwitnesses shared a testimonial impulse to represent their trauma in sound: reclaiming repertoires banned under the Nazis, composing original works, and staging performances in former sites of Fascist terror. By considering these musics--united in time and place, but radically different in content--this book makes audible forgotten or decayed sources to construct a theory of musical testimony.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbby Anderton\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research interests include post-catastrophic music making, performance and Holocaust testimony, and female composers. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eRubble Music\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), explored Berlin's classical music culture in the wake of the Third Reich. Anderton's work has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.33 x 6.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53512346140979,"sku":"9780197811207","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/qhovOs21Vl9780197811207.webp?v=1781788618","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/audible-testimonies-surviving-the-third-reich-in-music-and-media-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}