Jewish musical modernism, old and new [electronic resource] / edited by Philip V. Bohlman ; with a foreword by Sander L. Gilman.
Contributor(s): Bohlman, Philip Vilas | Gilman, Sander L | New Budapest Orpheum Society (Musical group) | ebrary, Inc.
Material type: BookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008Description: xix, 218 p. : ill. (some col.), music ; 25 cm. +.Subject(s): Jews -- Music -- History and criticism | Modernism (Music) | Jewish musicians | Music -- 20th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 780.89/924 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to viewSongs on accompanying CD performed by the New Budapest Orpheum Society; title on CD: Moments musicaux et modernes : Jewish modernism in popular and political music.
Contents of CD, explanatory notes, texts (in Hebrew or German), and English translations (p. 179-204).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: Are Jews musical? Historical notes on the question of Jewish musical modernism / Sander L. Gilman -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The transcendent moment of Jewish modernism / Philip V. Bohlman -- Multiple modernisms? Episodes from the sciences as cultures, 1900-1945 / Mitchell G. Ash -- Sephardic fins des si�ecles : the liturgical music of Vienna's T�urkisch-Israelitische community on the threshold of modernity / Edwin Seroussi -- Jewish music and German science / Pamela M. Potter -- Echoes from beyond Europe : music and the Beta Israel transformation / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- Charlotte Salomon's modernism / Michael P. Steinberg -- Epilogue : beyond Jewish modernism / Philip V. Bohlman -- Appendix 1. Moments musicaux et modernes : Jewish modernism in popular and political music : accompanying CD by the New Budapest Orpheum Society -- Appendix 2. CD texts and translations.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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