ISBN:
9780520250888
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 436 S.
,
Ill., Notenbeisp.
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
California studies in 20th-century music 8
Series Statement:
Mark Taper Foundation Jewish studies imprint
Series Statement:
California studies in 20th century music
DDC:
780.89/924
Keywords:
Bloch, Ernest Criticism and interpretation
;
Schoenberg, Arnold Criticism and interpretation
;
Bloch, Ernest Criticism and interpretation
;
Schoenberg, Arnold Criticism and interpretation
;
Jews Music
;
History and criticism
;
Music History and criticism
;
20th century
;
Nationalism in music
;
Bloch, Ernest 1880-1959
;
Schönberg, Arnold 1874-1951
;
Juden
;
Musik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Juden
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Musik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
Jewish nationalism à la russe : the Society for Jewish Folk Music. "Trifles of Jewish music" ; Zhidy and Yevrey in a neonationalist context -- Man's most dangerous myth : Ernest Bloch and racial thought. Racial mystique : anti-semitism and Ernest Bloch's racial theories of art ; Denied and accepted stereotypes : from Jezabel 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 in Schoenberg's last works
Description / Table of Contents:
Jewish nationalism à la russe : the Society for Jewish Folk Music. "Trifles of Jewish music" ; Zhidy and Yevrey in a neonationalist context -- Man's most dangerous myth : Ernest Bloch and racial thought. Racial mystique : anti-semitism and Ernest Bloch's racial theories of art ; Denied and accepted stereotypes : from Jezabel 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 in Schoenberg's last works
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002243.html
