{"product_id":"sounds-of-survival-polish-music-and-the-holocaust-hardcover","title":"Sounds of Survival: Polish Music and the Holocaust - 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\u003eJ. MacKenzie Pierce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSounds of Survival\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story of unexpected musical continuity across some of the twentieth century's most cataclysmic events. It examines an integrated Polish and Polish Jewish musical community as its members contended with antisemitism in the 1930s, attempted to survive the Nazi occupation, and established a renewed musical culture amid the ashes of World War II and the Holocaust. Reconstructing these musicians' lives from the 1920s into the 1950s, J. Mackenzie Pierce argues that despite nearly unimaginable violence, many Polish musicians treated the war as a time of reinvention and cultural preservation. Their faith that music was a source of cultural continuity, however, also marginalized experiences of wartime loss, especially those of Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust. \u003ci\u003eSounds of Survival\u003c\/i\u003e not only reveals that the Holocaust was a central event within modern Polish musical culture; it also shows why its musical aftermath has been difficult to hear. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major intellectual history with extraordinary significance as scholars ask how art music in Europe has been a site for the contestation of difference. This beautifully crafted book is a model twentieth-century history that shows how lives in music do not stop and start at the fissures of war.--Andrea F. Bohlman, author of \u003ci\u003eMusical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This remarkable and pathbreaking volume examines the evolution of the classical music scene in Poland from the 1920s to the height of Stalinism in the early 1950s. It is a moving testimony to the redemptive character of music and to its ability, on occasion, to overcome ethnic and religious difference. Essential reading for all those interested in the tragic fate of Europe in the twentieth century.\"--Antony Polonsky, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian, Global Education Outreach Project, Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSounds of Survival\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates Mackenzie Pierce's care in attending to silences embedded in narratives of Polish cultural continuity during the Second World War. Drawing on an astounding array of archive and press materials, Pierce challenges readers to recognize the personal and institutional labor that shaped those national narratives, which had a profound effect on Polish musical life for decades afterward.\"--Lisa Cooper Vest, author of \u003ci\u003eAwangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Mackenzie Pierce\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 356\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52636201091379,"sku":"9780520405929","price":124.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/sbCXP8eGqx9780520405929.webp?v=1762267987","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sounds-of-survival-polish-music-and-the-holocaust-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}