Chapter 11 SINGING THE UNSPEAKABLE IN RWANDA IN THE SUMMER OF 1994 Music in the Context of the Genocidal Abyss through a Portrait of the Artist

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TABLES viii
4. FOREWORD ix
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
6. Introduction TOWARD A MUSICAL APPROACH TO POSTWAR TRANSITIONS 1
7. Part I. Reconstructing the Music World
8. Chapter 1 TRANSITIONING FROM THE TURMOIL THROUGH MUSIC Withdrawal, Patriotism, Sublimation: Georges Bizet in the Early 1870s 19
9. Chapter 2 REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC FROM WAR TO PEACE Mexico, 1910s–1930s 39
10. Chapter 3 FIRST CONCERTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE The British Comebacks of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics in 1947/48 54
11. Part II A GRADUAL DEMOBILIZATION: MUSIC, CULTURES OF WAR, AND NATIONAL IMAGINATIONS
12. Chapter 4 DISCOURSE ON MUSIC AND THE POSTWAR TRANSITION The Case of France after the Franco-Prussian Conflict of 1870–1871 81
13. Chapter 5 SINGING ABOUT THE FORMER ENEMY Two Postwar Transition Periods Seen through the Lens of the Café-Concert and Music Hall Chanson, 1871–1923 102
14. Chapter 6 WAR OF TASTE IN POPULAR AND FOLK MUSIC French Chanson, 1940–1942 121
15. Chapter 7 POSTWAR TRANSITIONS AND USES OF MUSIC IN A CENTRAL EUROPEAN BORDERLAND REGION Tyrol and the Aftermath of Two World Wars, 1900–2010s 137
16. Part III MEMORY, MOURNING, AND COMMEMORATION
17. Chapter 8 BÉRANGER’S NAPOLEONIC SONGS Mourning, Memory, and the Future 157
18. Chapter 9 “WILL WE RETURN UNSCATHED?” Paul Hindemith’s Minimax and the Trauma of War 179
19. Chapter 10 THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TRANSATLANTIC REPERTOIRE OF RESISTANCE AND MOURNING IN THE POSTWAR YEARS Sources Collected by Shmerke Kaczerginski (Vilna, New York, Buenos Aires) 194
20. Chapter 11 SINGING THE UNSPEAKABLE IN RWANDA IN THE SUMMER OF 1994 Music in the Context of the Genocidal Abyss through a Portrait of the Artist 208
21. Part IV MUSIC FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION?
22. Chapter 12 PEACEMAKING AND FESTIVITIES AT THE CONGRESS OF PARIS, 1856 227
23. Chapter 13 INTERNATIONALISM AND MUSICAL EXCHANGE IN POST–WORLD WAR I EUROPE, 1918–1923 246
24. Chapter 14 MUSIC: A WEAPON FOR PEACE? The United States, UNESCO, and the Creation of the International Music Council, 1945–1953 271
25. Afterword SURVIVAL, DESIRE, EMPOWERMENT, AND THE ABSENCE OF WORDS Music in Postwar Transitions, 1800–1950 290
26. INDEX 299