City of Song - Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem

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.

Table des matières

• Introduction: 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

A propos de l'auteur

Michael A. Figueroa is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on music, politics, and religion in the Middle East, with concentrations in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, Jerusalem studies, and Middle Eastern diasporas in North America.

Résumé

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.

Texte suppl.

City of Song is an important addition to the growing bookshelf on Israel/Palestine and its musics. Through his engaging dialogue with multiple disciplines, Figueroa exposes Jerusalem and its representation in Hebrew song as a treasure trove of contested meanings, historical narratives, and political imaginations.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Michael Figueroa, Michael A. Figueroa, Michael A. (Associate Professor of Music Figueroa
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780197546437
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754643-7
• Pages: 264
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Général, dictionnaires; Ethnic Studies, Music, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Middle East / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Religion & beliefs, Middle Eastern history, Religion and beliefs, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General