Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British
project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study
asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and
renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged
site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical
recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was
sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic?
Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from
planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its
central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that
engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of
postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the
Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.
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