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Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music Volume 8

Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music Volume 8

Moricz, Klara

Hardcover

Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music, Book 8

JudaismMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0520250885
ISBN13: 9780520250888
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Feb 5 2008
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 9.13 Depth: 6.35
Language: English
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.

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