Publisher's Synopsis
Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. 'Performing Commemoration' looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to the current civil wars in the Congo and the `sayhername protests. Whose version of a traumatic historical event gets told is always a complicated question, and music adds further layers to this complexity, particularly music without words.
