The contribution aims to investigate the role that music played within the concentration camp universe. The ambiguous role of the musicians, mostly amateurs, who found themselves performing for their own executioners, must be understood starting from the unprecedented potential of resistance that music, as well as art in general, offered to the prisoners of the camps, allowing them not only to benefit from a less brutal and humiliating treatment than the other prisoners, but also opening up to them precious spaces of inner freedom. The music composed in the camps is finally interpreted from the philosophy of Ernst Bloch, who recognised music as the highest expression of a utopian practice of resistance.
‘Suonare per vivere’: la musica utopica nei Campi
Sandro Gorgone
2024-01-01
Abstract
The contribution aims to investigate the role that music played within the concentration camp universe. The ambiguous role of the musicians, mostly amateurs, who found themselves performing for their own executioners, must be understood starting from the unprecedented potential of resistance that music, as well as art in general, offered to the prisoners of the camps, allowing them not only to benefit from a less brutal and humiliating treatment than the other prisoners, but also opening up to them precious spaces of inner freedom. The music composed in the camps is finally interpreted from the philosophy of Ernst Bloch, who recognised music as the highest expression of a utopian practice of resistance.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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