War and Death in the Music of George Crumb: A Crisis of Collective Memory - Paperback

by Abigail Shupe (Author)

This book studies Crumb's Winds of Destiny and Black Angels as artefacts of collective memory and cultural trauma. It situates these two pieces in Crumb's output and unpacks the complex methodologies needed to understand these pieces as contributions and challenges to traditional narratives of the Civil War and the Vietnam War.

Author Biography

Abigail Shupe is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on Rameau and experimentation in Enlightenment France and George Crumb's music about death and war. She lives in Fort Collins, CO with her family.