Performing Commemoration

Annegret Fauser is Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Michael A. Figueroa is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Contents: vAcknowledgments: viiIntroduction | Annegret Fauser and Michael A. Figueroa: 1Trauma, Survival, and Musical Commemoration: 171. Ensounding Trauma, Performing Commemoration: Western Music in Time of War and Tumults | Annegret Fauser: 192. Commemorating Performance, the Cabaretesque, and History Inside Out | Philip V. Bohlman: 413. Music Commemorating the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings | Noriko Manabe: 68Mediation, Memory, and Musical Reenactment: 954. An Anthem for the AMIA Cause: León Gieco’s “La Memoria” and Public Assembly in the Benefit Music Video from Argentina | Lillian M. Wohl: 975. Musical Memory, Animated Amnesia: The Soundtrack of Exoneration in Waltz with Bashir | Michael A. Figueroa: 1216. Say Her Name: Invocation, Remembrance, and Gendered Trauma in Black Lives Matter | Imani Danielle Mosley: 142Possibilities and Impossibilities of Commemoration: Trauma’s Persistence and the Politics of Reenactment: 1637. Songs of Flight: War and Genocide Reenactment on the Refugee Route | Vanessa Agnew: 1658. Overwriting Sound: Polish Commemoration in Concert | Andrea F. Bohlman: 1939. Music and the Mediation of Remembrance: Reflections on the Commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide | Sylvia Angelique Alajaji: 21910. The Accidental Archivists: Memory, Resonance, and Decay in Kivu | Chérie Rivers Ndaliko: 240Afterword: Musical Commemoration and the Imagination of the Future | Kay Kaufman Shelemay: 263Bibliography: 269Contributors: 287Index: 293

Performing Commemoration offers valuable contemporary research into music and commemoration, conflict, and social justice, topics that are timely in ethnomusicology and related disciplines. The breadth of subject matter, wide range of research sites, engagement with current theoretical priorities and the concentration on music and trauma and conflict demonstrate the roles that music plays in human resiliency, memorialization and the ongoing need for social justice.