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Author Móricz, Klára, 1962-

Title Jewish identities : nationalism, racism, and utopianism in twentieth-century music / Klára Móricz.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series California studies in 20th-century music ; 8
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
California studies in 20th-century music ; 8.
S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-415) and index.
Contents Jewish nationalism à la Russe : the Society for Jewish Folk Music. "Trifles of Jewish music" ; Zhidï and Yevrei in a neonationalist context -- Man's most dangerous myth : Ernest Bloch and racial thought. Racial mystique : anti-semitism and Ernest Bloch's theories of art ; Denied and accepted stereotypes : from Jézabel to Schelomo ; The confines of Judaism and the elusiveness of universality : the Sacred service -- Utopias/dystopias : Arnold Schoenberg's spiritual Judaism. Uneasy parallels : from German nationalism to Jewish utopia ; Torsos and abstractions : "music in its promised land" ; On the ashes of the Holocaust : anxiety, abstraction, and Schoenberg's rhetoric of fear ; A taste for "the things in heaven" : cleansing music of politics.
Summary 'Jewish Identities' mounts a challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about 'Jewish music', which maintain that ethnic groups, nations or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group.
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Subject Bloch, Ernest -- Criticism and interpretation.
Bloch, Ernest.
Criticism and interpretation.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Jews -- Music -- History and criticism.
Jews -- Music.
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Nationalism in music.
Nationalism in music.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online). MARLI UPSO COMPREHENSIVE 2012.
Other Form: Print version: 9780520250888 0520250885 (DLC) 2007002243
ISBN 0520933680 (electronic book)
9780520933682 (electronic book)
9780520250888 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0520250885 (cloth : alkaline paper)