Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948 A Social History

Name: Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948 A Social History
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ISBN: 9780585254043

ISBN-10: 0585254044

ISBN-13: 9780585254043

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Authors: Jehoash Hirshberg

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This book presents a social history of the music of the Jewish community in Palestine from the beginnings of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1880 to the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. The story is a fascinating case study of a small society of immigrants and refugees who established an internationally recognized professional musical establishment against the backdrop of two world wars, the absorption of successive waves of immigrants, local skirmishes, and a full-scale national war. Though under Ottoman and later British rule, Jewish society in Palestine was virtually autonomous in cultural matters; its musical culture struggled for a balance between a transplanted European…

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List price: $80.93
Publisher: Ebsco Publishing
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Notes	p. x
Cultural and Ethnic Interaction in Ottoman Jerusalem	p. 1
The Musical Scene in the Ottoman Period Initiatives and Rivalries	p. 23
From Abyss to Recovery	p. 48
The Temple of the Arts Dream and Nightmare	p. 65
Music of the People Music for the People	p. 78
Music in the Land of the Bible, Pure Music, and Good Manners	p. 93
A Scene Change Enter the Germans	p. 110
From Pan-Europe to the Palestine Orchestra	p. 122
Inventing a Tradition of Folksongs	p. 146
The Immigrant Composers Transform the Musical Scene	p. 157
My Heart is in the East	p. 184
Individualism Versus Collectivism Music and the Kibbutz	p. 204
In the Cause of Jewish Music	p. 229
Between East and West the Ideological Strife	p. 241
The Semiotics of the East	p. 256
Epilogue Guns and Muses	p. 273
Bibliography	p. 277
Index	p. 287
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