Cultural Behaviour and the Invention of Traditions

Music and Musical Practices in the Early Concentration Camps, 1933-6/7

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10074784
AutoresGuido Fackler (University of Würzburg, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas601-627
Fecha de publicación2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022009410366704
PMID20845575
OpenAlexW2011123771
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

This article investigates music in the concentration camps before the second world war. For the camp authorities, ordering prisoners to sing songs or play in orchestras was an instrument of domination. But for the prisoners, music could also be an expression of solidarity and survival: inmates could retain a degree of their own agency in the pre-war camps, despite the often unbearable living conditions and harsh treatment by guards. The present article emphasizes this ambiguity of music in the early camps. It illustrates the emergence of musical traditions in the pre-war camps which came to have a significant impact on everyday life in the camps. It helps to overcome the view that concentration camp prisoners were simply passive victims

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Ambiguity · Archaeology · Art · Expression (computer science · Linguistics · Musical · Nazi concentration camps · Political science · Prisoners of war · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Visual arts · World War II · History · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy