Sound Representations of Memory

Joanna Posłuszna, psychologist and music theorist, assistant professor at the Instituteof Psychology at Maria Curie-Skłodowksa University in Lublin, author ofseveral books in Polish and English. Her research is mainly focused on the psychologyof 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