Jewish Music and Modernity

Name: Jewish Music and Modernity
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ISBN: 9780195178326

ISBN-10: 0195178327

ISBN-13: 9780195178326

Edition: 2008

Authors: Philip Bohlman

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Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in the face of the many brutal aesthetic and political challenges of modernity? In Jewish Music and Modernity, Philip V. Bohlman imparts these questions with a new light that transforms the very historiography of Jewish culture in modernity. Based on decades of fieldwork and archival study throughout the world, Bohlman intensively lexamines the many ways in which music has historically borne witness to the confrontation between modern Jews and the world around them. Weaving a historical narrative that spans from the end of the Middle Ages to the Holocaust, he moves…

Book details

List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/26/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Transcription, Transliteration, and Translation


Prologue: Before Jewish Music



Places Of Jewish Music



The Jewish Village: Music at the Border of Myth and History



The People without Music History: Rediscovering Jewish Music in the Mediterranean



East and West



Ontologies of Jewish Music



Inventing Jewish Music



Self-Reflecting-Self: Jewish Music Collecting in the Mirror of Modernity



Paths toward Utopia



Beyond Jewish Music



Parables of the Metropole



Jewishness in Music: Mirrors of Selfness in Jewish Music



Staging Jewish Music


Epilogue: After Jewish Music


Bibliography


Discography


Index