In Great War texts, ranging from memoirs and journal articles to songs and novels, former soldiers comment not only on the extraordinary noise of the battlefield, but also on the importance of list...

Listening to the din of the First World War

Sound and Literature

Unrecordable Sound: Media History, Technology and the Racial Unconscious*

Deafness and Sound

Aesthetics, Music, Noise

Parade's End registers the potential and necessity for a transition in conceptions of music informed by new sounds experienced during the First World War. In the trenches, Tietjens interprets a bombardment as a Wagnerian orchestra, encouraging contemplation of where and why demarcation lines between music and noise are drawn, as well as reflection on the utopian project of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Art-Work). Ford's tetralogy has a significant contribution to make towards understanding how writers were navigating the impact of noise on music in the early twentieth century.

Gemma Candice Moss

Papers

Music, Noise, and the First World War in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End