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Zusatztext This path-breaking book demolishes old myths about Israeli music's origins; transforms our understanding of the relationship between Jews, antisemitism, and classical music; and introduces a powerful new voice into the field of Israeli cultural history. -James Loeffler, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire Informationen zum Autor Assaf Shelleg is the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia. He was previously the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department at Washington University in St. Louis. Specializing in twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli art music, Shelleg's research has been published in some of the leading journals in both musicology and Israel Studies. A trained pianist, he is also a regular musical contributor to Ha'aretz newspaper. Klappentext Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History revolutionizes the study of modern Israeli art music by tracking the surprising itineraries of Jewish art music in the move from Europe to Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Zusammenfassung Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History revolutionizes the study of modern Israeli art music by tracking the surprising itineraries of Jewish art music in the move from Europe to Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History TABLE OF CONTENTS Jewish Contiguities Abbreviations I Hava Nagila? Decentering the Eastern European Soundscape Jewish Inversions Aesthetic Confines Rethinking Bloch Disarticulating Jewishness Historiographical Silhouettes Control Cases In Lieu of a Summary II From Pre- to Post-Statehood; Hebrewism Diluted Ringing the Bells-and-Whistles of the Zionist Project: National Musical Onomatopoeias Adjacent yet Oppositional: Subversive Hebrewists Statehood and the Demise of Romanticist Nationalism Destabilizing Western Metaphors of the East Consuming the Source Thematic Incongruities (or, Violating Ciarological Time) III 1960s-1970s; Articulating Jewishness in Israeli Art Music Enter the New Pioneers The Multivocal Negation of the Diaspora and its Dissolution Avni: Counterpointing Modes of Memory Epitaph for Whom? Kopytman: Transcribing Jewish Heterophonies Hebrewism Diluted; Judaism Deterritorialized Muting Oneself Postlude; Reshuffling Historiographical Cards ...
