Jewish identities : nationalism, racism, and utopianism in twentieth-century music
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Jewish identities : nationalism, racism, and utopianism in twentieth-century music
（California studies in 20th century music, 8）（S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies）
University of California Press, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-415) and index
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Description
"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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration Introduction I. JEWISH NATIONALISM A LA RUSSE: THE SOCIETY FOR JEWISH FOLK MUSIC 1. "Trifles of Jewish Music" 2. Zhidi and Yevrei in a Neonationalist Context II. MAN'S MOST DANGEROUS MYTH: ERNEST BLOCH AND RACIAL THOUGHT 3. Racial Mystique: Anti-Semitism and Ernest Bloch's Theories of Art 4. Denied and Accepted Stereotypes: From Jezabel to Schelomo 5. The Confines of Judaism and the Elusiveness of Universality: The Sacred Service III. UTOPIAS/DYSTOPIAS: ARNOLD SCHOENBERG'S SPIRITUAL JUDAISM 6. Uneasy Parallels: From German Nationalism to Jewish Utopia 7. Torsos and Abstractions: "Music in Its Promised Land" 8. On the Ashes of the Holocaust: Anxiety, Abstraction, and Schoenberg's Rhetoric of Fear 9. A Taste for "the Things of Heaven": Cleansing Music of Politics Postscript: "Castle of Purity" Notes Bibliography Index
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