Format:
XVII, 436 S.
,
Ill., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:
9780520250888
Series Statement:
California studies in 20th-century music 8
Content:
"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. Klára Móricz 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, Móricz describes a trajectory from paradigmatic nationalist techniques, through assumptions about the unintended presence of racial essences, to an abstract notion of Judaism." -- Book jacket.
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 401 - 415
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Bloch, Ernest 1880-1959
;
Schönberg, Arnold 1874-1951
;
Juden
;
Musik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Juden
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Musik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Biografie
URL:
Table of contents only
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002243.html
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