The State of Afterness
Contemporary Music in and about Israel
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 May 2025
- ISBN 9780197786727
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 241x167x30 mm
- Weight 667 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 31 music examples, 3 figures, 1 table 606
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Short description:
The State of Afterness studies the histories of contemporary music written in and about Israel since the 1980s. With afterness defined as the state of being unconditioned by territorialism, author Assaf Shelleg shows how composers gradually opted for national diasporism while reacknowledging the need to open up Jewish culture to contemporary aesthetic norms. Looking at operatic, symphonic, chamber, and electronic works, this book narrates the cultural history of an Israeli nation and a Jewish civilization still at odds.
MoreLong description:
The State of Afterness traces the histories and cultural histories of contemporary music in Israel since the 1980s and through the 2020s. With afterness defined as the state of being unconditioned by territorialism while opting for previously unavailable temporalities and ethnographies, Assaf Shelleg studies the compositional approaches that record the attenuation of territorial nationalism, and assembles a network of composers trained in the post-ideological climate of the 1970s and 80s. This network features operas, electronic music, orchestral, and chamber and ensemble works by Chaya Czernowin, Betty Olivero, Luciano Berio, Leon Schidlowsky, Josef Bardanashvili, and Arik Shapira, in addition to Jewish oral musical traditions and novels by David Grossman, A. B. Yehoshua, Yishai Sarid, and Ruby Namdar.
While in previous eras the statist subject superseded or subsumed any competing political project, since the 1980s such self-referential acts have been losing their ability to confer homogeneity and project the monologic of national Hebrew culture and its telos. As a result, Shelleg writes, the composers discussed in this book do not form a cohesive group, yet they share constituent cultural and historical sensibilities: they opt for diasporism irrespective of their compositional approaches but refrain from universalizing Jewish diasporas (as did classic Zionism); they display postmodern patrimonies but reject their essentialist qualities; they admonish their country's ethnocracy and democratic façade; they denationalize Holocaust memorialization; and they narrate the failure of territorial nationalism. In this sense, the state of afterness is a drama still etched in our everyday.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations
Music Examples
Introduction: The Afterness of State
Afterness
Chapter 1: Adamot
Do Not Be Like Your Fathers
Hebrew Culture as a Non-Reference
A Tel Avivian Ecosystem
Shifting
Golem
Postmodern Ethnographies?
The Poetics of Distance
Binding (Oneself)
Expand
Chapter 2: Pnima
Transcribing Disnarration
See Under: Love
Inward (pnima)
Securing the Disfigured
Adama (and Mozart, Too)
Local Renderings
Ethnographic Renderings
Atrophy (Willing and Unwilling)
Notes
Index
