Jewish Identities Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music - California Studies in 20Th-Century Music
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Jewish Identities mounts a formidable 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. Klára Móricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century "Jewish music" in three case studies: first, Russian Jewish composers of the first two decades of the twentieth century; second, the Swiss American Ernest Bloch; and third, Arnold Schoenberg. Examining these composers in the context of emerging Jewish nationalism, widespread racial theories, and utopian tendencies in modernist art and twentieth-century politics, Móricz describes a trajectory from paradigmatic nationalist techniques, through assumptions about the unintended presence of racial essences, to an abstract notion of Judaism.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520250888 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 19 Feb 2008 |
DEWEY: | 780.89924 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 436 |
Weight: | 749g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 33mm |