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: 9780198166511

ISBN-10: 0198166516

ISBN-13: 9780198166511

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

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 a 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 tranplanted European…

Book details

List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/19/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Notes



Cultural and Ethnic Interaction in Ottoman Jerusalem



The Musical Scene in the Ottoman Period Initiatives and Rivalries



From Abyss to Recovery



The Temple of the Arts Dream and Nightmare



Music of the People Music for the People



Music in the Land of the Bible, Pure Music, and Good Manners



A Scene Change Enter the Germans



From Pan-Europe to the Palestine Orchestra



Inventing a Tradition of Folksongs



The Immigrant Composers Transform the Musical Scene



My Heart is in the East



Individualism Versus Collectivism Music and the Kibbutz



In the Cause of Jewish Music



Between East and West the Ideological Strife



The Semiotics of the East


Epilogue Guns and Muses


Bibliography


Index