20th century politics
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case studies
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classical music
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essentialist assumptions
ethnic groups
formidable challenge
jewish identities
jewish identity
jewish music
jewish nationalism
modernist art
paradigmatic nationalist
racial theories
religious communities
russian jewish composer
swiss american
utopian tendencies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520250888
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Klara Moricz 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, Moricz describes a trajectory from paradigmatic nationalist techniques, through assumptions about the unintended presence of racial essences, to an abstract notion of Judaism.
Klara Moricz is the Valentine Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume of the Bela Bartok Complete Critical Edition and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of American Musicological Society.
