Commemorating Gallipoli through Music

Name: Commemorating Gallipoli through Music
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ISBN: 9781498556217

ISBN-10: 1498556213

ISBN-13: 9781498556217

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Morgan O'Connell

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This monograph examines the relationship between music and memory as it relates to the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). Drawing upon a wide variety of sources in many languages, it explores the multiple ways in which music is employed to remember and to forget, to celebrate and to commemorate a victory (on the part of the Central Powers) and a defeat (on the part of the Allied forces) in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-8). Further, it argues that commemoration itself can be viewed as an instrument of war. In particular, it investigates the complex positionality of individual actors during the centennial commemorations of the Gallipoli landings (24 April, 2015) where the…

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
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