Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 December 2014
- ISBN 9780199354948
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 165x241x25 mm
- Weight 535 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 80 music examples, 1 halftone 0
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Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History revolutionizes the study of modern Israeli art music by tracking the surprising itineraries of Jewish art music in the move from Europe to Mandatory Palestine and Israel.
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Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History revolutionizes the study of modern Israeli art music by tracking the surprising itineraries of Jewish art music in the move from Europe to Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Leaving behind clichés about East and West, Arab and Jew, this book provocatively exposes the legacies of European antisemitism and religious Judaism in the making of Israeli art music.
Shelleg introduces the reader to various aesthetic dilemmas involved in the emergence of modern Jewish art music, ranging from auto-exoticism through the hues of self-hatred to the disarticulation of Jewish musical markers. He then considers part of this musics' translocation to Mandatory Palestine, studying its discourse with Hebrew culture, and composers' grappling with modern and Zionist images of the self. Unlike previous efforts in the field, Shelleg unearths the mechanism of what he calls "Zionist musical onomatopoeias," but more importantly their dilution by the non-western Arab Jewish oral musical traditions (the same traditions Hebrew culture sought to westernize and secularize).
And what had begun with composers' movement towards the musical properties of non-western Jewish musical traditions grew in the 60s and 70s to a dialectical return to exilic Jewish cultures. In the aftermath of the Six-Day War, which reaffirmed Zionism's redemptive and expansionist messages, Israeli composers (re)embraced precisely the exilic Jewish music that emphasized Judaism's syncretic qualities rather than its territorial characteristics. In the 70s, therefore, while religious Zionist circles translated theology into politics and territorial maximalism, Israeli composers deterritorialized the national discourse by a growing return to the spaces shared by Jews and non-Jews, devoid of Zionist appropriations.
Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History is a complex, bold and highly original study of the history of art music in pre- and post-state Israel. With an exceptional erudition in each field he brings to bear (musicology, Hebrew literature, Israel history, cultural studies) and superb command over the musical metier, Assaf Shelleg stages an arresting narrative about a unique musical modernism, adding an exemplary chapter to our understanding of how music negotiates with nationalism, exoticism, and dislocation, gradually allowing for a repressed sonic past to emerge into a vexed foreground.
Table of Contents:
Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Jewish Contiguities
Abbreviations
I
Hava Nagila? Decentering the Eastern European Soundscape
Jewish Inversions
Aesthetic Confines
Rethinking Bloch
Disarticulating Jewishness
Historiographical Silhouettes
Control Cases
In Lieu of a Summary
II
From Pre- to Post-Statehood; Hebrewism Diluted
Ringing the Bells-and-Whistles of the Zionist Project: National Musical Onomatopoeias
Adjacent yet Oppositional: Subversive Hebrewists
Statehood and the Demise of Romanticist Nationalism
Destabilizing Western Metaphors of the East
Consuming the Source
Thematic Incongruities (or, Violating Ciarological Time)
III
1960s-1970s; Articulating Jewishness in Israeli Art Music
Enter the New Pioneers
The Multivocal Negation of the Diaspora and its Dissolution
Avni: Counterpointing Modes of Memory
Epitaph for Whom?
Kopytman: Transcribing Jewish Heterophonies
Hebrewism Diluted; Judaism Deterritorialized
Muting Oneself
Postlude; Reshuffling Historiographical Cards
