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Subject(s)

• Jews—Music—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Walden, Joshua S. (Ph. D.) [Browse]

Series

Cambridge companions to music. [More in this series]

Summary note

The term 'Jewish music' has conveyed complex and diverse meanings for people around the world across hundreds of years. This accessible and comprehensive Companion is a key resource for students, scholars, and everyone with an interest in the global history of Jewish music. Leading international experts introduce the broad range of genres found in Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, including classical, religious, folk, popular, and dance music. Presenting a range of fresh perspectives on the subject, the chapters explore Jewish liturgy, Klezmer, music in Israel, the music of Yiddish theatre and cinema, and classical music from the Jewish Enlightenment through to the postmodern era. Additional contributions set Jewish music in context and offer an overview of the broader issues that arise in its study, such as questions of Diaspora, ontology, economics, and the history of sound technologies.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Jan 2016).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I. Conceptions of Jewish music
• Part II. Jewish music in religious, folk, and popular contexts
• Part III. Periods, places, and genres of Jewish music composition.
• Ontologies of Jewish music / Philip V. Bohlman
• Jewish music and diaspora / Edwin Seroussi
• The institutions of Jewish musical meaning / Judah M. Cohen
• Jewish music and media of sound production / Joshua S. Walden
• The music of Israel during the Iron Age / Theodore W. Burgh
• Jewish liturgical music / Mark Kligman
• The traditional performance of Sephardic songs, then and now / Susana Weich-Shahak
• Klezmer music : a historical overview to the present / Joel Rubin
• Art music and Jewish culture before the Jewish Enlightenment : negotiating identities in Late Renaissance Italy / Joshua R. Jacobson
• A new song : Jewish musicians in European music, 1730-1850 / David Conway
• From biblical antiquarianism to revolutionary modernism : Jewish art music, 1850-1925 / James Loeffler
• The reform of synagogue music in the nineteenth century / Tina Frühauf
• Under pressure : Jewish art music, 1925-1945 / Lily E. Hirsch
• Music in the Yiddish theater and cinema, 1880-1950 / Mark Slobin
• Art music in the Yishuv and in Israel / Jehoash Hirshberg
• Cavernous impossibilities : Jewish art music after 1945 / Amy Lynn Wlodarski.

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ISBN

• 1-316-42992-X
• 1-316-43489-3
• 1-139-15121-5

OCLC

931678224

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