City of Song
Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem
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2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-754647-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-754647-5 (ISBN)
In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa presents an extensive history of Zionist musical discourses around Jerusalem in the long 20th century (1880-2010s), reorienting our understanding of the city's place in the Israeli-Palestine crisis.
Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth century. In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa argues that musical renderings of Jerusalem have been critical to the formation of Israeli political consciousness. The book demonstrates how Israeli songwriters helped to shape their public's territorial imagination-- creating images of a city at once heavenly and earthly, that dwells in longing, that must not be forgotten, that compels one to bereave the dead, that represents the fulfilment of prophecy, and that is the site of immense cultural diversity. The dynamic history of its representation in lyrics and music helps dispel any notion that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is timeless, intractable, and based on static, essential identities; while there are continuities across historical divides, radical change constantly transpires.
City of Song combines analyses of musical meaning, political discourse, and public performance over the long twentieth century (1880s-2010) to reveal how the Israeli-Palestinian crisis' territorial fixation on Jerusalem has been constructed, historically contingent, and subject to artistic intervention in modernity. Through a musical history of Jerusalem, Figueroa introduces a novel, humanities-centered approach to one of the world's most contested cities, and one of the defining cultural and political questions of our era.
Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth century. In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa argues that musical renderings of Jerusalem have been critical to the formation of Israeli political consciousness. The book demonstrates how Israeli songwriters helped to shape their public's territorial imagination-- creating images of a city at once heavenly and earthly, that dwells in longing, that must not be forgotten, that compels one to bereave the dead, that represents the fulfilment of prophecy, and that is the site of immense cultural diversity. The dynamic history of its representation in lyrics and music helps dispel any notion that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is timeless, intractable, and based on static, essential identities; while there are continuities across historical divides, radical change constantly transpires.
City of Song combines analyses of musical meaning, political discourse, and public performance over the long twentieth century (1880s-2010) to reveal how the Israeli-Palestinian crisis' territorial fixation on Jerusalem has been constructed, historically contingent, and subject to artistic intervention in modernity. Through a musical history of Jerusalem, Figueroa introduces a novel, humanities-centered approach to one of the world's most contested cities, and one of the defining cultural and political questions of our era.
Michael A. Figueroa is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on music, politics, and religion in the Middle East, with concentrations in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, Jerusalem studies, and Middle Eastern diasporas in North America.
Introduction: Musical Jerusalem: Listening to the City of Song
1 Metaphorical Jerusalem: Longing in Zionist Cultural Production
2 Forgotten Jerusalem: Zionism without Zion?
3 Haunted Jerusalem: Musical Memorialism and the Politics of Bereavement
4 Gilded Jerusalem: "The Song that Took a City"
5 Heterotopian Jerusalem: Politics of Difference in Dan Almagor's My Jerusalem
Epilogue
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 16 halftones |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 241 mm |
| Gewicht | 503 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-754647-1 / 0197546471 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-754647-5 / 9780197546475 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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