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The Cambridge companion to Jewish music / edited by Joshua S. Walden.
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Title:The Cambridge companion to Jewish music / edited by Joshua S. Walden.
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Variant Title:Jewish music
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Other Contributors/Collections:Walden, Joshua S., 1979- editor.
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Published/Created:Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
©2015
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: ML3776 .C35 2015
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Jews--Music--History and criticism.
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Description:xiii, 293 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
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Series:Cambridge companions to music.
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Summary:" ... 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 offer an overview of the broader issues that arise in its study, such as questions of diaspora, ontology, economics, and the history of sound technologies."--Back cover.
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Notes:"First published 2015"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9781107023451 (hardback)
1107023459 (hardback)
9781107623750 (paperback)
1107623758 (paperback)
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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.