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October 2012
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2012
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Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.

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Some sources quoted in the text are not included in the bibliography. These include mainly shorter articles, printed ephemera, and sources cited only once. Full publication details can be found in the notes.

Abbreviations

BBC

BBC Written Archives, Reading

BPL

Britten–Pears Library, Aldeburgh

Letters

Vols. I–II: Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed, eds. Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten 1913–1976. Vol. III: Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Mervyn Cooke, eds. Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1946–1951. London: Faber & Faber, 1991–2004. Vol. IV: Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke, and Donald Mitchell, eds. Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1952–1957. Vol. V: Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, eds. Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1958–1965. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008–10.

Archival Collections

  • Archive Centre at King’s College Cambridge

  • Archives of the V&A Theatre and Performance Collections, London

  • Arts Council of Great Britain Archives, V&A Archive of Art and Design, London

  • BBC Written Archives Centre, Reading

  • British Film Institute, London

  • Britten–Pears Library, Aldeburgh

  • Coventry Cathedral Archive, Coventry

  • Coventry City Records Office, Coventry

  • Glyndebourne Archive, Glyndebourne

  • National Sound Archive, British Library, London

  • Royal Opera House Collections, London

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