Meeting with Research - Interview with Élise Petit

Presentation, Meeting / Debate Culture
February 10, 2025Saint-Martin-d'Hères - University campus
Come and listen to an interview with Élise Petit, musicologist, who will present her exhibition catalog "Music in the Nazi Camps," winner of the 2024 France Musique Book Grand Prize.
Meeting Research

Cycle of talks at the UFR ARSH library

> Monday, February 10, 2025 - 4 p.m.
Interview with Élise Petit,  lecturer in musicology at the University of Grenoble, on her exhibition catalog "Music in Nazi Camps."


Coercive, intrusive, torturous or, conversely, resistant, and very rarely recreational, music resounded daily in the concentration camps and death centers of the Nazi regime.
Using a topographical approach, Music in the Nazi Camps aims to reveal the multiple uses of music in the concentration camp system, based on written testimonies, drawings made by prisoners or survivors, sheet music and objects related to orchestras, as well as official and clandestine photographs.
While music served primarily to further the policies of extermination in the camps, it sometimes contributed to undermining certain aspects of the system by allowing, even fleetingly, the formation of communities in which humanity was rediscovered.

> Élise Petit'sLa Musique dans les camps nazis(Music in the Nazi Camps) receives the 2024 France Musique-Claude Samuel Grand Prix du Livre award.

Published on January 8, 2025
Updated on February 12, 2026