Jewish musical modernism, old and new / edited by Philip V. Bohlman ; with a foreword by Sander L. Gilman

Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Physical Description: xix, 218 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Additional Creators: Bohlman, Philip Vilas

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Contents

Foreword: Are Jews musical? Historical notes on the question of Jewish musical modernism / Sander L. Gilman -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The transcendent moment of Jewish modernism / Philip V. Bohlman -- Multiple modernisms? Episodes from the sciences as cultures, 1900-1945 / Mitchell G. Ash -- Sephardic fins des siècles : the liturgical music of Vienna's Türkisch-Israelitische community on the threshold of modernity / Edwin Seroussi -- Jewish music and German science / Pamela M. Potter -- Echoes from beyond Europe : music and the Beta Israel transformation / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Charlotte Salomon's modernism / Michael P. Steinberg -- Epilogue : beyond Jewish modernism / Philip V. Bohlman -- Appendix 1. Moments musicaux et modernes : Jewish modernism in popular and political music : accompanying CD by the New Budapest Orpheum Society -- Appendix 2. CD texts and translations.

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9780226063263 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226063267 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Moments Musicaux et Modernes : Jewish modernism in popular and political music

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Title on accompanying CD label: Moments Musicaux et Modernes : Jewish modernism in popular and political music.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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