• Jewishness, Jewish Identity and Music Culture in 19th-Century Europe

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Jewishness, Jewish Identity and Music Culture in 19th-Century Europe

  • Editor: Luca Lévi Sala
  • Publisher: Ut Orpheus
  • Code: APS 12
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Saggi di Steven J. Cahn, Marsha Dubrow, Diana R. Hallman, Jehoash Hirshberg, Mark Kligman, César A. Leal, Rachel Orzech, Danielle Padley, Jesse Rosenberg, Laure Schnapper, Benjamin Wolf, Susan Wollenberg

The present book aims to describe 19th-century Jewish musical production in light of major social and historical events: a revolutionary process for the Jewish world resulting from its inclusion in European political and cultural secularization. The ferment that such assimilation brought resulted in the fragmentation of the Jewish religious identity into distinct liturgical currents. How much the 19th-century modernization of the Jewish world affect the Jewish identity of composers and their music, encompassing the following components: conversion, liturgy, synagogal chant and cantillation, musical form, opera, textuality, entrepreneurship and individuality? How many of these structural components were direct or corollary to both musical composition, and the concept of Jewishness?

Editor: Luca Lévi Sala

Publication Date: 11/17/2020

Series: Ad Parnassum Studies

Pages: pp. 320

Size: 170x240 mm

Binding: Paperback (Soft Cover)

ISBN: 978-88-8109-521-6

Code: APS 12

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... Though it certainly does not portray the whole continent of “Europe,” as the title suggests, but rather offers microstudies concerning (Jewish) composers from Western and Southern Europe and their works, this book is a worthwhile collocation. In its entirety, it gives insights into Jewish reality and experience in 19th century cultural and religious life and presents findings of recent research in the respective fields for an informed audience. Each single article is a profound and precious contribution to (Jewish) music studies. (Martha Stellmacher, November 2022)