Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,2 (2023) 192-224
Keywords:
Seter, Mordecai, Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
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Scholem, Gershom, Influence
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Composers
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Music Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Synagogue music
Abstract:
Spanning more than 2700 pages, the notebooks Mordecai Seter had written between 1952 and 1993 feature more than to-do lists, teaching schedules, and other errands involving the musicians and functionaries that performed, published or broadcast his music. The notebooks disclose dozens of stylistic self-analyses (whose growing volume in the 1960s and 1970s would signal a creative impasse) alongside numerous citations from books on Jewish mysticism, esotericism, symbolism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, modernism, art history, and musicology that Seter repurposed as borrowed autobiographical snippets. Combined, these two facets shed new light on his aesthetic shifts as well as on the stipulations of the historiography of art music in Israel. And as unsung chapters of Seter’s autobiography unfold, they also thicken the biography of a bigger ecosystem, unconditioned by notions of peripherality or Otherness.
DOI:
10.1080/14725886.2022.2039040
URL:
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