Experiencing Jewish Music In America

Author : Tina Frühauf
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442258402

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Experiencing Jewish Music in America by Tina Frühauf Pdf

Experiencing Jewish Music in America: A Listener's Companion offers an easy-to-read and new perspective on the remarkably diverse landscape that comprises Jewish music in the United States. This much-needed survey on the art of listening to and enjoying this dynamic and diverse musical culture invites listeners curious about the many types of music in its connection to Jewish life. Experiencing Jewish Music in America is intended to encourage further reading about, listening to, and viewing of this portion of America’s musical heritage, and provide listeners with the tools to understand and appreciate this body of work. This volume is designed to appeal to listeners of all stripes, regardless of ability to read music, and of religious or cultural background. Experiencing Jewish Music in America offers insights into an extensive range of musical genres and styles that have been central to the Jewish experience, beginning with the arrival of the first Jewish immigrants in the sixteenth century and the chanting of the Torah, to the sounds of pop today. It lays the groundwork for the listener’s understanding of music in its relation to Jewish studies by exploring the wide range of venues in which this music has appeared, from synagogue to street to stage to screen. Each chapter offers selected case studies where these unique forms of music were—and still can be—heard, seen, and experienced. This book gives readers unique insights into the challenges of classifying Jewish music, while it traces its history and development on American soil and outlines “ways of listening” so readers can draw clear connections to Jewish culture. The volume thus brings together American Jewish history, the story of American and Jewish music, and the roles of the individuals important to both. It offers the reader tools to identify, evaluate, and appreciate the musical genres, and reflect the growing interest of the past decade in the academic study of Jewish music.

Author : Marsha Bryan Edelman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0827610270

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Discovering Jewish Music by Marsha Bryan Edelman Pdf

Author : Philip V. Bohlman,Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer,Maria M. Chow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 019517304X

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Music in American Religious Experience by Philip V. Bohlman,Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer,Maria M. Chow Pdf

For students and scholars in American music and religious studies, as well as for church musicians, this book is the first to study the ways in which music shapes the distinctive presence of religion in the United States. The sixteen essayists' contributions to this book address the fullness of music's presence in American religion and religious history.

Author : Carol A. Hess
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520961005

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Experiencing Latin American Music by Carol A. Hess Pdf

Experiencing Latin American Music draws on human experience as a point of departure for musical understanding. Students explore broad topics—identity, the body, religion, and more—and relate these to Latin American musics while refining their understanding of musical concepts and cultural-historical contexts. With its brisk and engaging writing, this volume covers nearly fifty genres and provides both students and instructors with online access to audio tracks and listening guides. A detailed instructor’s packet contains sample quizzes, clicker questions, and creative, classroom-tested assignments designed to encourage critical thinking and spark the imagination. Remarkably flexible, this innovative textbook empowers students from a variety of disciplines to study a subject that is increasingly relevant in today’s diverse society. In addition to the instructor’s packet, online resources for students include: customized Spotify playlist online listening guides audio sound links to reinforce musical concepts stimulating activities for individual and group work

Author : Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030039073

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American Jewish Year Book 2018 by Arnold Dashefsky,Ira M. Sheskin Pdf

The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 118th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends. The first two chapters of Part I include a special forum on "Contemporary American Jewry: Grounds for Optimism or Pessimism?" with assessments from more than 20 experts in the field. The third chapter examines antisemitism in Contemporary America. Chapters on “The Domestic Arena” and “The International Arena” analyze the year’s events as they affect American Jewish communal and political affairs. Three chapters analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canada, and world Jewish populations. Part II provides lists of Jewish institutions, including federations, community centers, social service agencies, national organizations, synagogues, Hillels, day schools, camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. The final chapters present national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; academic resources, including Jewish Studies programs, books, journals, articles, websites, and research libraries; and lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. Today, as it has for over a century, the American Jewish Year Book remains the single most useful source of information and analysis on Jewish demography, social and political trends, culture, and religion. For anyone interested in Jewish life, it is simply indispensable. David Harris, CEO, American Jewish Committee (AJC), Edward and Sandra Meyer Office of the CEO The American Jewish Year Book stands as an unparalleled resource for scholars, policy makers, Jewish community professionals and thought leaders. This authoritative and comprehensive compendium of facts and figures, trends and key issues, observations and essays, is the essential guide to contemporary American Jewish life in all its dynamic multi-dimensionality. Christine Hayes, President, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS)and Robert F. and Patricia R. Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica at Yale University

Author : Alexander Tentser
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1443854670

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The Jewish Experience in Classical Music by Alexander Tentser Pdf

Shostakovich and Asia â " this unique combination of two highly dissimilar composers allows us to explore the breadth of influence of traditional Jewish culture on Western classical music in the 20th century and beyond. These two composers speak in different musical languages and have very different personalities. Shostakovich, a 20th century Russian composer living under totalitarian Soviet rule, and Asia, a contemporary Jewish-American composer, are nevertheless connected through time by the common thread of Jewish music. The first part of this book deals with Shostakovich and his incorporation of traditional Jewish elements in his music. In recent times there has been a great deal of controversy concerning Shostakovichâ (TM)s â oedissidentâ outlook and his critical attitude towards the Soviet regime. The contributors to this volume, however, have chosen to focus on the more humane qualities of Shostakovichâ (TM)s personality, his honesty and courage, which enabled him in difficult times to express through his works Jewish torment and suffering under both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. The second part of this book is dedicated to the music of Daniel Asia and to his philosophical and religious identification with Judaism. Of particular importance is the composerâ (TM)s opening article, a valuable testament to the religious and aesthetic beliefs that inspired him to create his most significant symphonic work, the Fifth Symphony, Of Songs and Psalms.

Author : Joshua S. Walden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107023451

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music by Joshua S. Walden Pdf

A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.

Author : Alexander Tentser
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443858724

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The Jewish Experience in Classical Music by Alexander Tentser Pdf

Shostakovich and Asia – this unique combination of two highly dissimilar composers allows us to explore the breadth of influence of traditional Jewish culture on Western classical music in the 20th century and beyond. These two composers speak in different musical languages and have very different personalities. Shostakovich, a 20th century Russian composer living under totalitarian Soviet rule, and Asia, a contemporary Jewish-American composer, are nevertheless connected through time by the common thread of Jewish music. The first part of this book deals with Shostakovich and his incorporation of traditional Jewish elements in his music. In recent times there has been a great deal of controversy concerning Shostakovich’s “dissident” outlook and his critical attitude towards the Soviet regime. The contributors to this volume, however, have chosen to focus on the more humane qualities of Shostakovich’s personality, his honesty and courage, which enabled him in difficult times to express through his works Jewish torment and suffering under both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. The second part of this book is dedicated to the music of Daniel Asia and to his philosophical and religious identification with Judaism. Of particular importance is the composer’s opening article, a valuable testament to the religious and aesthetic beliefs that inspired him to create his most significant symphonic work, the Fifth Symphony, Of Songs and Psalms.

Author : Tina Fruhauf
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199896488

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The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture by Tina Fruhauf Pdf

The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture examines the powerful presence of the organ in synagogue music and in the general musical life of German-speaking Jewish communities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the development of a new organ music repertoire as a paradigm for the changing identity of modern Jewry.

Author : Tina Frühauf,Lily Hirsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199367498

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Dislocated Memories by Tina Frühauf,Lily Hirsch Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society The first volume of its kind, Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture draws together three significant areas of inquiry: Jewish music, German culture, and the legacy of the Holocaust. Jewish music-a highly debated topic-encompasses a multiplicity of musics and cultures, reflecting an inherent and evolving hybridity and transnationalism. German culture refers to an equally diverse concept that, in this volume, includes the various cultures of prewar Germany, occupied Germany, the divided and reunified Germany, and even "German (Jewish) memory," which is not necessarily physically bound to Germany. In the context of these perspectives, the volume makes powerful arguments about the impact of the Holocaust and its aftermath in changing contexts of musical performance and composition. In doing so, the essays in Dislocated Memories cover a wide spectrum of topics from the immediate postwar period with music in the Displaced Persons camps to the later twentieth century with compositions conceived in response to the Holocaust and the klezmer revival at the turn of this century. Dislocated Memories builds on a wide range of recent and critical scholarship in Cold War studies, cultural history, German studies, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, and memory studies. What binds these distinct fields tightly together are the contributors' specific theoretical inquiries that reflect separate yet interrelated themes such as displacement and memory. While these concepts link the multi-faceted essays on a micro-level, they are also largely connected in their conceptual query by focus, on the macro-level, on the presence and the absence of Jewish music in Germany after 1945. Filled with original research by scholars at the forefront of music, history, and Jewish studies, Dislocated Memories will prove an essential text for scholars and students alike.

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814792629

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The Modern Jewish Experience by Jack Wertheimer Pdf

This essential resource offers guidance for educators to expand the teaching repertoire on a range of issues in modern Jewish history, culture, religion, and Society.

Author : Philip V. Bohlman,Professor of Music Philip Vilas Bohlman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195178326

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Jewish Music and Modernity by Philip V. Bohlman,Professor of Music Philip Vilas Bohlman Pdf

Bohlman investigates several aspects of Jewish music within the context of the period beginning with the emancipation of German-Jewish culture during the eighteenth century and culminating in the destruction of that same culture under the Nazis.

Author : Jack Kitaeff
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Jews
ISBN : 9781621968962

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Jews in Blue: The Jewish American Experience in Law Enforcement by Jack Kitaeff Pdf

Author : Kerri P. Steinberg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813573878

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Jewish Mad Men by Kerri P. Steinberg Pdf

It is easy to dismiss advertising as simply the background chatter of modern life, often annoying, sometimes hilarious, and ultimately meaningless. But Kerri P. Steinberg argues that a careful study of the history of advertising can reveal a wealth of insight into a culture. In Jewish Mad Men, Steinberg looks specifically at how advertising helped shape the evolution of American Jewish life and culture over the past one hundred years. Drawing on case studies of famous advertising campaigns—from Levy’s Rye Bread (“You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s”) to Hebrew National hot dogs (“We answer to a higher authority”)—Steinberg examines advertisements from the late nineteenth-century in New York, the center of advertising in the United States, to trace changes in Jewish life there and across the entire country. She looks at ads aimed at the immigrant population, at suburbanites in midcentury, and at hipster and post-denominational Jews today. In addition to discussing campaigns for everything from Manischewitz wine to matzoh, Jewish Mad Men also portrays the legendary Jewish figures in advertising—like Albert Lasker and Bill Bernbach—and lesser known “Mad Men” like Joseph Jacobs, whose pioneering agency created the brilliantly successful Maxwell House Coffee Haggadah. Throughout, Steinberg uses the lens of advertising to illuminate the Jewish trajectory from outsider to insider, and the related arc of immigration, acculturation, upward mobility, and suburbanization. Anchored in the illustrations, photographs, jingles, and taglines of advertising, Jewish Mad Men features a dozen color advertisements and many black-and-white images. Lively and insightful, this book offers a unique look at both advertising and Jewish life in the United States.

Author : Brian Smollett,Christian Wiese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004284661

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Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience by Brian Smollett,Christian Wiese Pdf

Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience provides a variety of new perspectives on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present.