Jewish Music and Modernity (AMS Studies in Music)
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199946841 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars J. Cheung Great!
"Culminating a trilogy by one of ethnomusicology's most innovative and distinguished voices, this books is as much about the nature of Jewish music and its historiography as it is about history, modernity, and the poetics of narrative itself."--Ruth F. He modulates between disparate contexts of performance, styles, genres, academic endeavors and individuals to create a distinctive tapestry of intersecting connotations. Davis, University Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, Fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge"Uncovering the intricate layers of meaning found in the archeology of 'Jewish music,' Bohlman provides innovative perspectives towards a sophisticated reading of this concept. A welcomed addition to ongoing discourses about music, politics of identity, and post-modernity."--Edwin Seroussi, E
His ethnographic and historical research stretch from the American Midwest across Central and Eastern Europe to the Middle East and South Asia. Philip V. In addition to his work as a scholar, he is a pianist and the Artistic Director of the Jewish cabaret ensemble, the New Budapest Orpheum Society.. Bohlman is a Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at The University of Chicago
When Jews and Jewish musicians entered modernity, authenticity became an ideal to be supplanted by the reality of complex traditions. From the sacred and to the secular, from folk to popular music, and in the many languages in which it was written and performed, he accounts for areas of Jewish music that have rarely been considered before. Jewish Music and Modernity demonstrates how borders between repertories are crossed and the sound of modernity is enriched by the movement of music and musicians from the peripheries to the center of modern culture. Klezmer music emerged in rural communities cohabited by Jews and Roma; Jewish cabaret resulted from the collaborations of migrant Jews and non-Jews to the nineteenth-century metropoles of Berlin and Budapest, Prague and Vienna; cantors and composers expe