Introduction. Stains? -- Non-Biblical Tonalities -- Biblocentrism in Modern Hebrew Culture and its Operatic Undoing -- Horizontal Realizations : The Agency of Non-Western Jewish Musical Traditions in Art Music of the 1950s and '60s -- Broken Hebrewist Vessels -- Compositional Solutions (in the double sense of the word)
Summary
"Theological Stains traces the growth of art music in Israel from the mid twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In a riveting and provocative account, Assaf Shelleg explores the theological grammar of Zionism and its impact on the art music written by emigrant and native composers grappling with biblical redemptive promises and diasporic patrimonies. Unveiling the network that bred territorial nationalism and Hebrew culture, Shelleg shows how this mechanism infiltrated composers' work as much as it triggered less desirable responses from composers who sought to realize to the non-territorial Diasporic options Zionism has renounced. In the process compositional aesthetics gets stained by the state's nationalization of the theological, by diasporism that refuses redemption, and by Jewish musical traditions that permeated inaudibly to compositions written throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Accompanying this rich and dramatic story are equivalent developments in modern Hebrew literature and poetry alongside vast and previously unstudied archival sources. The book is also lavishly illuminated with 135 music examples that render it an incisive guide to fundamental chapters in modern and late modern art music"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on March 9, 2021)
