Jewish identities
Subtitle: nationalism, racism, and utopianism in twentieth-century music
By: Klára Móricz.
Series: California studies in 20th-century music -- 8; Mark Taper Foundation Jewish studies imprint
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520250888
Subjects: Bloch, Ernest -- Criticism and interpretation; Schoenberg, Arnold -- Criticism and interpretation; Jews -- Music -- History and criticism; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Nationalism in music
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Jewish nationalism à la russe : the Society for Jewish Folk Music. "Trifles of Jewish music" ; Zhidy and Yevrey in a neonationalist context; title: Man's most dangerous myth : Ernest Bloch and racial thought. Racial mystique : anti-semitism and Ernest Bloch's racial theories of art ; Denied and accepted stereotypes : from Jezabel to Schelomo ; The confines of Judaism and the elusiveness of universality : the sacred service; title: Utopias/dystopias : Arnold Schoenberg's spiritual Judaism. Uneasy parallels : from German nationalism to Jewish utopia ; Torsos and abstractions : "music in its promised land" ; On the ashes of the Holocaust : anxiety, abstraction, and Schoenberg's rhetoric of fear ; A taste for "the things in heaven" : cleansing music of politics in Schoenberg's last works.