Jewish Music and Modernity
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199946846
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 152x226x17 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 illus., 5 music ex. 0
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Short description:
Jewish Music and Modernity demonstrates how borders between repertories are crossed and the sound of modernity is enriched by the movement of music and musicians from the peripheries to the center of modern culture. Bohlman ultimately challenges readers to experience the modern confrontation of self and other anew.
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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 examines 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 through the vast confluence of musical styles and repertories. From the sacred and to the secular, from folk to popular music, and in the many languages in which it was written and performed, he accounts for areas of Jewish music that have rarely been considered before. Jewish music, argues Bohlman, both survived in isolation and transformed the nations in which it lived. When Jews and Jewish musicians entered modernity, authenticity became an ideal to be supplanted by the reality of complex traditions. Klezmer music emerged in rural communities cohabited by Jews and Roma; Jewish cabaret resulted from the collaborations of migrant Jews and non-Jews to the nineteenth-century metropoles of Berlin and Budapest, Prague and Vienna; cantors and composers experimented with new sounds. The modernist impulse from Felix Mendelssohn to Gustav Pick to Arnold Schoenberg and beyond became possible because of the ways music juxtaposed aesthetic and cultural differences.
Jewish Music and Modernity demonstrates how borders between repertories are crossed and the sound of modernity is enriched by the movement of music and musicians from the peripheries to the center of modern culture. Bohlman ultimately challenges readers to experience the modern confrontation of self and other anew.
Culminating a trilogy by one of ethnomusicology's most innovative and distinguished voices, this books is as much about the nature of Jewish music and its historiography as it is about history, modernity, and the poetics of narrative itself.
Table of Contents:
Transcription, Transliteration, And Translation
Prologue: Before Jewish Music
PART 1: PLACES OF JEWISH MUSIC
1. The Jewish Village: Music at the Border of Myth and History
2. The People Without Music History: Rediscovering Jewish Music in the Mediterranean
3. East and West
PART 2: ONTOLOGIES OF JEWISH MUSIC
4. Inventing Jewish Music
5. Self-Reflecting Self: Jewish Music Collecting in the Mirror of Modernity
6. Paths Toward Utopia
PART 3: BEYOND JEWISH MUSIC
7. Parables of the Metropole
8. Jewishness in Music: Mirrors of Selfness in Jewish Music
9. Staging Jewish Music
Epilogue: After Jewish Music
Bibliography
Discography
Index
