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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Assaf Shelleg |
ISBN: | 9780199354948 0199354944 9780199354962 0199354960 |
OCLC Number: | 872382273 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2015 Joel Engel Prize ; Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize, Association for Jewish Studies. |
Description: | xv, 280 pages : music ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Introduction. Jewish Contiguities : Translocated Pasts Facing the Levant -- 1. Hava Nagila? : Decentering the Eastern European Soundscape -- 2. From Pre- to Post-Statehood : Hebrewism Diluted -- 3. 1960s-1970s : Articulating Jewishness in Israeli Art Music -- 4. Reshuffling Historiographical Cards. |
Responsibility: | Assaf Shelleg. |
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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 understandingof how music negotiates with nationalism, exoticism, and dislocation, gradually allowing for a repressed sonic past to emerge into a vexed foreground. * Ruth HaCohen, Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem * This path-breaking book demolishes old myths about Israeli music's origins; transforms our understanding of the relationship between Jews, antisemitism, and classical music; and introduces a powerful new voice into the field of Israeli cultural history. -James Loeffler, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire Read more...

