TY - BOOK ID - 65570926 TI - Sounds of war and peace : soundscapes of European cities in 1945 AU - Tańczuk, Renata AU - Wieczorek, Sławomir PY - 2018 SN - 3631753462 3631753365 3631753470 PB - Berlin : Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Sound KW - Sound in motion pictures. KW - Cities and towns KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Radio broadcasting and the war. KW - Acoustics KW - Continuum mechanics KW - Mathematical physics KW - Physics KW - Pneumatics KW - Radiation KW - Wave-motion, Theory of KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Urban systems KW - Human settlements KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Motion pictures KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Culture KW - Study and teaching. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65570926 AB - This book vividly evokes for the reader the sound world of a number of European cities in the last year of the Second World War. It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experiences of violence, threats and death. Exploiting to the full methodologies and research tools developed in the fields of sound and soundscape studies, the authors analyse their reflections on autobiographical texts and art. The studies demonstrate the role urban sounds played in the inhabitants' forging a sense of identity as they adapted to new living conditions. The chapters also shed light on the ideological forces at work in the creation of urban sound space. ER -