Jewish music and modernity
Bohlman, Philip VilasAuthor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
Bohlman investigates several aspects of Jewish music within the context of the period beginning with the emancipation of German-Jewish culture during the eighteenth century and culminating in the destruction of that same culture under the Nazis.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bohlman investigates several aspects of Jewish music within the context of the period beginning with the emancipation of German-Jewish culture during the eighteenth century and culminating in the destruction of that same culture under the Nazis.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: before Jewish music -- Places of Jewish music. The Jewish village: music at the border of myth and history ; The people without music history: rediscovering Jewish music in the Mediterranean ; East and West -- Ontologies of Jewish music.  Inventing Jewish music ; Self-reflecting-self: Jewish music collecting in the mirror of modernity ; Paths toward Utopia -- Beyond Jewish music. Parables of the metropole ; Jewishness in music: mirrors of selfness in Jewish music ; Staging Jewish music -- Epilogue: after Jewish music.
Jews
Modernism (Music)
Music
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political