Jewish Music and Modernity

by Philip V. Bohlman

Book Overview

Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in the face of the many brutal aesthetic and political challenges of modernity? In Jewish Music and Modernity, Philip V. Bohlman imparts these questions with a new light that transforms the very historiography of Jewish culture in modernity.

Based on decades of fieldwork and archival study throughout the world, Bohlman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199946841
• ISBN13: 9780199946846
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"