Listening as a Practice of Everyday Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Gregor
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
World War ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Behavioral Norms ◽  
Symphonic Music ◽  
Second World

Why, and how, did Germans listen to symphonic music during the Second World War? This chapter focuses on wartime Munich, where there was a strong increase in performances owing to expanded demand by listeners. Most work on concert-hall life in this period echoes clichéd claims regarding the relation between culture and barbarism; this chapter seeks instead to explore the everydayness of the practice, which embodied a social habit that remained fundamentally unchanged from before the war and continued unchanged after it. One might speak in this context of the “regime of listening” that governed behavioral norms in the Western concert hall more generally. In this sense, the chapter argues that it is easier to make sense of how and why Germans listened to music during the war if we worry less about their nationality and concentrate more on the connection of this phenomenon to sensory cultures in the period more broadly.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Ken Hirschkop
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Social ◽  
Second World

The conclusion examines the situation after the Second World War. It shows how the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy ended and how the social democratic settlement in Western Europe gave birth to the new linguistic turns known as structuralism. The author explores the former by examining the career of Richard Rorty and the latter by looking at how Roland Barthes combines ideas from Saussure with a project for a radical analysis of French everyday life in the Mythologies. The book concludes with a review of how the various linguistic turns overinvested in the idea of language.

Baghdad during the Second World War years

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
Ghazi Karim
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

A remembrance of the experience of Baghdad during the Second World War, is presented mainly from the vantage of the book sellers’ market of Suq Al Sarai, located in the centre of Baghdad near Al-Sarai and Al-Mutanabbi streets. The Suq, long the locale of cultural exchange and a foundry for Iraqi intellectual life, experienced the war in a unique way, with shortages of paper and accessibility to foreign books, journals and voices at the fore, rather than the absence of foodstuffs and other necessities of everyday life made short due to the war. The author notes how the violence and the attendant dislocation brought to this home of ideas and comity was to see itself repeated with even much greater bloodshed in a further violent clash during 2007.

Shannon L. Fogg, Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942–1947. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 197 pp.

2020 ◽  
pp. 290-292
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Vichy France ◽  
Second World ◽  
Oxford University Press

Several years ago, Shannon Fogg published an important book, The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France, in which she analyzed the effects of material distress on the range of attitudes toward the Vichy government and its treatment of strangers, showing that pragmatism generally prevailed over ideology. In this new book, Fogg maintains her focus on the problematics of everyday life but moves her spotlight to the victims of this same Vichy government, the Jews, and widens her chronological scope to include the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. ...

Wartime Relations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Röger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Sexual Encounters ◽  
Racial Policy ◽  
Civilian Women ◽  
Second World

During the Second World War, all contact between German soldiers and Polish women — considered an “inferior race” — was officially banned. Sexual encounters frequently took place, however. Some were consensual, while others were characterised by brutal violence, and women often sold their bodies as a means of survival. The army and SS constructed purpose-built brothels for their soldiers, but also banned and frequently punished loving relationships. This book gives a powerful account of these encounters and describes the actions of the army and the SS in regulating relations between soldiers and civilian women. The book provides new and important insights into everyday life during the occupation, Nazi racial policy, and the fates of the women involved.

Everyday Life and the Shtetl

2018 ◽  
pp. 381-396
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Interwar Poland ◽  
Second World ◽  
Radical Movement

This chapter talks about the historiography and idea of the shtetl that has become so romanticized in the Jewish imagination of today that it has become difficult to separate fact from fiction. It looks at the antisemitic campaigns in interwar Poland by focusing on the propaganda of the radical movement called Ruch Narodowo-Radykalny propaganda. It also investigates the gender perspective on the rescue of Jews in Poland during the Second World War. The chapter discusses a report on the situation in Poland in mid-1941 that was prepared by Roman Catholic activists. It also looks at the interview with David Roskies on his most recent book on Holocaust literature, which was conducted by Paweł Wolski.

scholarly journals “The human suffering unmapped”. Joanna Bator’s prose on Wałbrzych in the context of Polish post-resettlement literature of the 1990–2010s

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-295
Author(s):  
Irina E. Adelgeym ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Literary Geography ◽  
Second World

The article is devoted to the depiction of Wałbrzych in the prose of the modern Polish writer Joanna Bator (b. 1968), referring to the generation of children of migrants to the Returned Territories. Driven by the need to re-root in the space of childhood from the perspective of post-memory, they turned to the fate of their ancestors and of former inhabitants of these territories, significantly enriching and expanding the literary geography of Poland. The historical trauma, to the therapy of which the work of these writers serves, is in fact a delayed trauma of migration. It is the experience of the children of people who built their homes on the ruins of lives (both their own and others’) and whose everyday life constantly revealed traces of the expelled Other. In other words, it was the experience of the Second World War. It was lived through not in reality, but in the form of destructive consequences for the psyche and identity. For various reasons, genuine artistic comprehension and realization of the autopsychotherapeutic potential of the unique space of the Returned Territories became possible only after 1989. J. Bator’s prose belongs to the second phase of this process, when the perspective of a nostalgic archaeologist who carefully searches, reads and glorifies the traces of the past (both German and Polish), is devoid of idealization and replaced by the perspective of rigid reflection on the doubling of historical trauma in the space of the Returned Territories.

Cultural Behaviour and the Invention of Traditions: Music and Musical Practices in the Early Concentration Camps, 1933-6/7

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Fackler
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
World War ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Musical Traditions ◽  
Second World

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.

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