Sound Representations of Memory

Joanna Posłuszna, psychologist and music theorist, assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology at Maria Curie-Skłodowksa University in Lublin, author of several books in Polish and English. Her research is mainly focused on the psychology of music and emotions, memory, and sound in totalitarian institutions.

Introduction — Chapter 1 Review of selected work on the theme of memory — Chapter 2 Szymon Laks – Auschwitz Games — Chapter 3 Stanisław Wiechowicz – Letter to Marc Chagall — Chapter 4 Marta Ptaszyńska – Holocaust Memorial Cantata — Chapter 5 Zbigniew Bujarski – Burning Bushes, Kinoth, Chamber Composition — Chapter 6 Bernadetta Matuszczak – Humanae Voces — Chapter 7 Arnold Schoenberg – A Survivor from Warsaw — Chapter 8 Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time — Chapter 9 Dmitri Shostakovich – Babi Yar — Chapter 10 Selected issues from the work of Krzysztof Pendereck — Chapter 11 Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima — Chapter 12 Death Brigade — Chapter 13 Oratorium Dies irae — Chapter 14 Kaddish — Chapter 15 Conclusion — Bibliography — Index of Names