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The most musical nation : Jews and culture in the late Russian empire / James Loeffler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loeffler, James Benjamin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Russia--Music--History and criticism.
- Jews.
- Jewish musicians--Russia--History.
- Jewish musicians.
- Music--Russia--19th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Music--Russia--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 274 p.) ) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an insightful account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through music, rather than politics or religion.
- Contents:
- Emancipating sounds : Anton Rubinstein and the rise of the Russian Jewish musician
- National voices, imperial echoes : Joel Engel and the Russian Jewish musical fin de siècle
- The most musical nation : the birth of the Society for Jewish Folk Music
- Frozen folk songs : modern Jewish culture between art and commerce
- The neighbors' melodies : the politics of music in war and revolution.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300162943
- 0300162944
- OCLC:
- 741484896
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