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Jewish Music and Modernity (Paperback)
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Jewish Music and Modernity (Paperback)
Series: AMS Studies in Music
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Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it
survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in
the face of the many brutal aesthetic and political challenges of
modernity? In Jewish Music and Modernity, Philip V. Bohlman imparts
these questions with a new light that transforms the very
historiography of Jewish culture in modernity. Based on decades of
fieldwork and archival study throughout the world, Bohlman
intensively examines the many ways in which music has historically
borne witness to the confrontation between modern Jews and the
world around them. Weaving a historical narrative that spans from
the end of the Middle Ages to the Holocaust, he moves through the
vast confluence of musical styles and repertories. 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, argues Bohlman, both survived in isolation and
transformed the nations in which it lived. When Jews and Jewish
musicians entered modernity, authenticity became an ideal to be
supplanted by the reality of complex traditions. 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 experimented
with new sounds. The modernist impulse from Felix Mendelssohn to
Gustav Pick to Arnold Schoenberg and beyond became possible because
of the ways music juxtaposed aesthetic and cultural differences.
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. Bohlman ultimately challenges readers to
experience the modern confrontation of self and other anew.
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