Title Jewish identities : nationalism, racism, and utopianism in twentieth-century music / Klára Móricz

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource Series California studies in 20th-century music ; 8 The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies California studies in 20th-century music ; 8. S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. Contents Jewish nationalism à la Russe : the Society for Jewish Folk Music. "Trifles of Jewish music" ; Zhidï and Yevrei in a neonationalist context -- Man's most dangerous myth : Ernest Bloch and racial thought. Racial mystique : anti-semitism and Ernest Bloch's theories of art ; Denied and accepted stereotypes : from Jézabel to Schelomo ; The confines of Judaism and the elusiveness of universality : the Sacred service -- 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 Summary 'Jewish Identities' mounts a challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music', which maintain that ethnic groups, nations or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group Analysis 20th century politics case studies classical music essentialist assumptions ethnic groups formidable challenge jewish identities jewish identity jewish music jewish nationalism modernist art paradigmatic nationalist racial theories religious communities russian jewish composer swiss american utopian tendencies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-415) and index Notes Print version record Subject Bloch, Ernest -- Criticism and interpretation Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Bloch, Ernest fast Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 fast Subject Jews -- Music -- History and criticism. Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Nationalism in music. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians. MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. MUSIC -- Reference. Jews -- Music Music Nationalism in music Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online). MARLI UPSO COMPREHENSIVE 2012 LC no. 2021696367 ISBN 0520933680 9780520933682

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