Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword (Wojciech Klimczyk) -- Bibliography -- Ouverture -- Music, the "Third Reich", and "The 8 Stages of Genocide" (M. J. Grant, Mareike Jacobs, Rebecca Möllemann, Simone Christine Münz, and Cornelia Nuxoll) -- Introduction -- Stanton's "The 8 Stages of Genocide" in the context of genocide studies -- Music and the "8 Stages of Genocide" -- A. Stages 1, 2, 3 (Classification, Symbolisation, Dehumanisation) -- B. Stages 4, 5, 6 (Organisation, Polarisation, Preparation) -- C. Stage 7, Extermination -- D. Stage 8, Denial -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Part I - Testimonies -- Geok Tepe Muğam: A Musical Narrative of Turkmen Massacre in 1881 (Arman Goharinasab & Azadeh Latifkar) -- Introduction -- The Narratives of the Catastrophe -- Socio-political Evolutions in the 19th Century -- The Geok Tepe Battle -- The Poets' Narratives -- The Narrators -- Musical Narratives -- Turkmen Music Styles -- Geok Tepe Muğam -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Functions of Music within the Nazi System of Genocide in Occupied Poland (Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek) -- Introduction. The Social, Psychological, Ethical, Historical Aspects of Music within the Nazi System of Detention and Extermination -- The Social Psychopathology of the Nazi Conscience and the Functions of Music within a Genocidal Context for the Perpetrators and their Victims -- Aestheticisation of the Nazi Ideology and Music as Metaphor -- The Ideological and Social Roles of Music in Camps through the Lens of Social Psychology -- Music in Camps as a Complex Mechanism of Control, Humiliation and Domination -- Entertainment versus Degradation -- Music as Self-defence, Music as a Survival Ploy against Dehumanisation -- Mass Killings and the Sound of Music -- Bibliography -- The Aural Landscape of Majdanek (Joanna Posłuszna and Łukasz Posłuszny).

Forms of Music in the Concentration Camp -- "Majdanek Radio" -- Sounds -- The sounds of the power and violence -- Operation Erntefest ("Harvest Festival") -- Conclusion -- Bibiliography -- White-Power Music and the Memory of the Holocaust (Kirsten Dyck) -- What is White-Power Music? -- Burying the Holocaust in White-Power Song Lyrics -- Denying the Holocaust in White-Power Song Lyrics -- Celebrating the Holocaust in White-Power Song Lyrics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Interlude -- The Holocaust - the Code of Death without the Alphabet of Life (Leszek Sosnowski) -- The Incomparability Thesis -- Lebenswelt - Todeswelt: the Worlds of the 20th Century -- Bibliography -- Part II - Tributes -- " as if the shame before the victims would be offended" - Adorno's Verdict on Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw (Ralph Buchenhorst) -- Introduction -- A Survivor from Warsaw: Material, Compositional structure, Context -- Schoenberg, Music, and Politics -- Adorno, the Arts, and the Shoah -- Verdicts in Dialectical Movement: Adorno's Interpretation of A Survivor from Warsaw -- Conclusion: Considering the Context Dependency of the Shoah's Memory -- Bibliography -- Towards a Critical Understanding of Representational and Semantic Issues within Hanns Eisler's Score for Nuit et Brouillard (1955) (Matt Lawson) -- Bibliography -- "We remember": The Trauma of the Holocaust in Krzysztof Penderecki's Work (Joanna Posłuszna) -- I. -- II. -- III. -- Bibliography -- Coda -- Impossible Music? On Genocide as Silence (Rwanda, Auschwitz and Beyond) (Wojciech Klimczyk) -- Words -- Genocide -- Silence -- Nonidentity vs Totality -- Music -- The Name -- Bibliography -- Afterword: Genocide, Music, and the Name (Lawrence Kramer) -- Bibliography -- Contributors.