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City of Song - Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem (Paperback)
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City of Song - Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem (Paperback)
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Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian
religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the
Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested
space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not
only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the
ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth
century. In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem,
author Michael A. Figueroa argues that musical renderings of
Jerusalem have been critical to the formation of Israeli political
consciousness. The book demonstrates how Israeli songwriters helped
to shape their public's territorial imagination- creating images of
a city at once heavenly and earthly, that dwells in longing, that
must not be forgotten, that compels one to bereave the dead, that
represents the fulfilment of prophecy, and that is the site of
immense cultural diversity. The dynamic history of its
representation in lyrics and music helps dispel any notion that the
Israeli-Palestinian crisis is timeless, intractable, and based on
static, essential identities; while there are continuities across
historical divides, radical change constantly transpires. City of
Song combines analyses of musical meaning, political discourse, and
public performance over the long twentieth century (1880s-2010) to
reveal how the Israeli-Palestinian crisis' territorial fixation on
Jerusalem has been constructed, historically contingent, and
subject to artistic intervention in modernity. Through a musical
history of Jerusalem, Figueroa introduces a novel,
humanities-centered approach to one of the world's most contested
cities, and one of the defining cultural and political questions of
our era.
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