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Judaism Musical and Unmusical
Michael P. Steinberg
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Description for Judaism Musical and Unmusical
Hardback. Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity. This book traces the formulation of this secular Jewishness from its Enlightenment roots through the twentieth century to explore the variations of modern Jewish experience in central Europe and beyond. Num Pages: 256 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity. "Judaism Musical and Unmusical" traces the formulation of this secular Jewishness from its Enlightenment roots through the twentieth century to explore the infinite variations of modern Jewish experience in central Europe and beyond. Engaging the work of such figures as Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Charlotte Salomon, Arnaldo Momigliano, Leonard Bernstein, and Daniel Libeskind, Michael Steinberg shows how modern Jews advanced cosmopolitanism and multiplicity by helping to loosen - whether by choice or by necessity - the ties ... Read more
Modernity gave rise to a Jewish consciousness that has increasingly distanced itself from the sacred in favor of worldliness and secularity. "Judaism Musical and Unmusical" traces the formulation of this secular Jewishness from its Enlightenment roots through the twentieth century to explore the infinite variations of modern Jewish experience in central Europe and beyond. Engaging the work of such figures as Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Charlotte Salomon, Arnaldo Momigliano, Leonard Bernstein, and Daniel Libeskind, Michael Steinberg shows how modern Jews advanced cosmopolitanism and multiplicity by helping to loosen - whether by choice or by necessity - the ties ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226771946
SKU
V9780226771946
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About Michael P. Steinberg
Michael P. Steinberg is director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and professor of music at Brown University. His most recent book is Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music.
Reviews for Judaism Musical and Unmusical
"Michael Steinberg is an original and powerful voice in cultural history, and virtually the only scholar who convincingly brings musical works into relationship with the cultural tensions of their time. In Judaism Musical and Unmusical, he cogently argues that there never was any such thing as a Jewish tradition free from internal complexity, tension, and complicated inter-relations with many aspects ... Read more