Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New
With a Foreword by Sander L. Gilman
224 pages, 19 color plates, 8 halftones, 1 line drawing, 4 musical examples, 1 cd 8-1/4 x 9-1/4
©
2008
Cloth $35.00
ISBN: 9780226063263
Published March 2009
Contents Foreword: Are Jews Musical? Historical Notes on the Question of Jewish Musical Modernism Sander L. Gilman Acknowledgments Introduction: The Transcendent Moment of Jewish Modernism Philip V. Bohlman 1. Multiple Modernisms? Episodes from the Sciences as Cultures, 1900–1945 Mitchell G. Ash 2. Sephardic Fins des Siècles: The Liturgical Music of Vienna’s Türkisch-Israelitische Community on the Threshold of Modernity Edwin Seroussi 3. Jewish Music and German Science Pamela M. Potter 4. Echoes from beyond Europe: Music and the Beta Israel Transformation Kay Kaufman Shelemay 5. Charlotte Salomon’s Modernism Michael P. Steinberg Epilogue: Beyond Jewish Modernism Philip V. Bohlman Appendix 1. Moments musicaux et modernes: Jewish Modernism in Popular and Political Music: Accompanying CD by the New Budapest Orpheum Society Appendix 2. CD Texts and Translations Contributors Index
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