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In 15 micro-chapters, one for each chapter in the book, the editors explore their own auto-ethnographic relationship to notions of remembrance and reflect upon significant ‘inscriptions of loss’, from the dedication to Henry Purcell that scores the music to Dido’s lament from Dido and Aeneas, to the pockmarked pavement of Sarajevo. It relates the local to the global and identifies shared latitudes between chapters in the publication. It weaves together the themes of the book with references to the cyclical nature of conflict and its commemoration.
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Pinchbeck, M. 2014. Sit with me for a moment and remember. First performed: Manchester, Hazard Festival.
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Watch This Space: Lincoln Cathedral, Metro-Boulot-Dodo and Bathysphere, June 2003, Commissioned by EMPAC.
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Nightingale sings as RAF bombers fly past on 29 May 1942. Footage can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MHqW5KVds.
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Pinchbeck, M., Westerside, A. (2018). Staging Loss: A Conclusion—Some Words Speak of Events. Other Words, Events Make Us Speak. In: Pinchbeck, M., Westerside, A. (eds) Staging Loss. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97970-0_15
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