Michael A. Figueroa

City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197546475
• ISBN-10: 0197546471
• Artikelnr.: 62606277

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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