Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism, and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Music Volume 8
(Part of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music Series)
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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. Kl?ra M?ricz 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, M?ricz describes a trajectory from paradigmatic nationalist techniques, through assumptions about the unintended presence of racial essences, to an abstract notion of Judaism.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520250885
ISBN13:9780520250888
Release Date:February 2008
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:468 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 9.1" x 6.3"
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