City of song : music and the making of modern Jerusalem / Michael A. Figueroa.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Figueroa, Michael A., 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jews--Music--History and criticism.
• Music--Israel.
• Jerusalem--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Cover
• City of Song
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration
• 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
• References
• Index.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Figueroa, Michael A. City of Song

ISBN:

• 0-19-754645-5
• 0-19-754646-3

OCLC:

1291318808