The Cambridge companion to Jewish music /
Presenting a range of fresh perspectives on the field, the chapters explore Jewish liturgy, klezmer, music in Israel, the music of Yiddish theater and cinema and classical music from the Jewish Enlightenment through to the postmodern era. Additional contributions set Jewish music in context and offe...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Conceptions of Jewish music
- Part II. Jewish music in religious, folk, and popular contexts
- Part III. Periods, places, and genres of Jewish music composition.
- Ontologies of Jewish music / Philip V. Bohlman
- Jewish music and diaspora / Edwin Seroussi
- The institutions of Jewish musical meaning / Judah M. Cohen
- Jewish music and media of sound production / Joshua S. Walden
- The music of Israel during the Iron Age / Theodore W. Burgh
- Jewish liturgical music / Mark Kligman
- The traditional performance of Sephardic songs, then and now / Susana Weich-Shahak
- Klezmer music : a historical overview to the present / Joel Rubin
- Art music and Jewish culture before the Jewish Enlightenment : negotiating identities in Late Renaissance Italy / Joshua R. Jacobson
- A new song : Jewish musicians in European music, 1730-1850 / David Conway
- From biblical antiquarianism to revolutionary modernism : Jewish art music, 1850-1925 / James Loeffler
- The reform of synagogue music in the nineteenth century / Tina Frühauf
- Under pressure : Jewish art music, 1925-1945 / Lily E. Hirsch
- Music in the Yiddish theater and cinema, 1880-1950 / Mark Slobin
- Art music in the Yishuv and in Israel / Jehoash Hirshberg
- Cavernous impossibilities : Jewish art music after 1945 / Amy Lynn Wlodarski.