| Contents |
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 siècles : the liturgical music of Vienna's Türkisch-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. |
| Abstract |
Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilmans provocative opening salvo--Are Jews Musical?--this volumes distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteenth century to the present. |
| Local note | JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER : MusicLib CD-10701. |
| General note | Songs on accompanying CD performed by the New Budapest Orpheum Society; title on CD: Moments musicaux et modernes : Jewish modernism in popular and political music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007045221 |
| ISBN | 9780226063263 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226063267 (cloth : alk. paper) |
