Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New

Name: Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
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ISBN: 9780226063263

ISBN-10: 0226063267

ISBN-13: 9780226063263

Edition: 2009

Authors: Philip V. Bohlman, Sander L. Gilman

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Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman7;s provocative opening salvo-1;Are Jews Musical?1;-this volume7;s distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteenth century to the present. Covering the sacred and the secular, the European and the non-European, and all the arenas where these realms converge, these essays recast the established history of Jewish culture and its influences on modernity. Mitchell Ash explores the relationship of Jewish scientists to modernist artists and musicians, while Edwin Seroussi looks at the creation of Jewish sacred music in nineteenth-century Vienna. Discussing…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/30/2009
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 240
Size: 8.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.310
Language: English



Contents


Foreword: Are Jews Musical?


Historical Notes on the Question of Jewish Musical Modernism



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Transcendent Moment of Jewish Modernism




Multiple Modernisms? Episodes from the Sciences as Cultures, 1900–1945




Sephardic Fins des Siï¿½cles: The Liturgical Music of Vienna’sTï¿½rkisch-IsraelitischeCommunity on the Threshold of Modernity




Jewish Music and German Science




Echoes from beyond Europe: Music and the Beta Israel Transformation




Charlotte Salomon’s Modernism




Beyond Jewish Modernism




Moments musicaux et modernes: Jewish Modernism in Popular and Political


Music: Accompanying CD by the New Budapest Orpheum Society



CD Texts and Translations


Contributors


Index