Cover -- City of Song -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Musical Jerusalem: Listening to the City of Song -- 1 Metaphorical Jerusalem: Longing in Zionist Cultural Production -- 2 Forgotten Jerusalem: Zionism without Zion? -- 3 Haunted Jerusalem: Musical Memorialism and the Politics of Bereavement -- 4 Gilded Jerusalem: "The Song that Took a City" -- 5 Heterotopian Jerusalem: Politics of Difference in Dan Almagor's My Jerusalem -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
Summary
In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa presents an extensive history of Zionist musical discourses around Jerusalem in the long 20th century (1880-2010s), reorienting our understanding of the city's place in the Israeli-Palestine crisis
