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Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music
Klara Moricz
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Hardback. The prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music,' maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. This book scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century 'Jewish music' in three case studies. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 468 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 3 tables, 115 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC6; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 749.
"Jewish Identities" mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music,' which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Klara Moricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century 'Jewish music' in three case studies: first, Russian Jewish composers of the first two decades of the twentieth century; second, the Swiss American Ernest Bloch; and third, Arnold Schoenberg. Examining these composers in the context of emerging Jewish nationalism, widespread racial theories, and utopian tendencies in modernist art and twentieth-century politics, ... Read more
"Jewish Identities" mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music,' which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Klara Moricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century 'Jewish music' in three case studies: first, Russian Jewish composers of the first two decades of the twentieth century; second, the Swiss American Ernest Bloch; and third, Arnold Schoenberg. Examining these composers in the context of emerging Jewish nationalism, widespread racial theories, and utopian tendencies in modernist art and twentieth-century politics, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520250888
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V9780520250888
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About Klara Moricz
Klara Moricz is the Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume of the Bela Bartok Complete Critical Edition and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of American Musicological Society.
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