Most Musical Nation - Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire

No image of pre revolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. At a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to Jewish modernity in music? This book offers a fresh perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture and identity. Won the Bela Bartok Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicological Book sponsored by ASCAP--B la Bart k Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicological Book "American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) " Zusammenfassung No image of pre revolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. At a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism! how and why did Russian music become the gateway to Jewish modernity in music? This book offers a fresh perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture and identity.

Product details

• Authors: James Loeffler, Loeffler James
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2013
• EAN: 9780300198300
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19830-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Music, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, MUSIC / Religious / Jewish, Jewish Studies, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Relating to Jewish people and groups, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Social groups: religious groups and communities