Rubbled Cities - Sounds and Silence: A Travelogue

Ruth Hacohen

doi:10.1017/S1478572222000123

Rubbled Cities - Sounds and Silence: A Travelogue

Ruth Hacohen^*

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Department of Musicology

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A travelogue of an Israeli musicologist, descendant of German Jewish émigrés, her real and imaginary sonic journey roams between ruins and rubble in Germany and Israel/Palestine. She takes ruins as iconic, allegoric, and reverberating; partially resisting the ravages of time, enshrining sounds and memory. She deems rubble as formless, plain, and voiceless, devoid of identity, transient, and forgetful. The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 ce by the Romans is her starting point, and the currently occupied East Jerusalem by Israeli armed forces is where she ends. The imaginary soundscapes she unfolds resonates forlorn heavenly voices, Nazi youth's ditties, Israeli pop songs, operatic voices, and redemptive and subversive German and Israeli oratorios.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	234-243
Number of pages	10
Journal	Twentieth-Century Music
Volume	19
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478572222000123
State	Published - 1 Jun 2022

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