Jewry in Music
Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner
Seiten
2011
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781107015388 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781107015388 (ISBN)
David Conway traces the progress of Jews in the burgeoning early nineteenth-century European music industry, analysing dynamic changes in economics, politics and technology during this time. Investigating musical biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, this study presents a radical contextualisation of Wagner's infamous 'Judaism in Music'.
David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from Western art music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as leading figures – not only as composers and performers, but as publishers, impresarios and critics. His study places this process in the context of dynamic economic, political, sociological and technological changes and also of developments in Jewish communities and the Jewish religion itself, in the major cultural centres of Western Europe. Beginning with a review of attitudes to Jews in the arts and an assessment of Jewish music and musical skills, in the age of the Enlightenment, Conway traces the story of growing Jewish involvement with music through the biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, leading to a radical contextualisation of Wagner's infamous 'Judaism in Music'.
David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from Western art music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as leading figures – not only as composers and performers, but as publishers, impresarios and critics. His study places this process in the context of dynamic economic, political, sociological and technological changes and also of developments in Jewish communities and the Jewish religion itself, in the major cultural centres of Western Europe. Beginning with a review of attitudes to Jews in the arts and an assessment of Jewish music and musical skills, in the age of the Enlightenment, Conway traces the story of growing Jewish involvement with music through the biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, leading to a radical contextualisation of Wagner's infamous 'Judaism in Music'.
David Conway is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London. He has published articles in Slavonic and East European Studies, European Judaism and Jewish Historical Studies and is a contributor to The Wagner Journal. He is the founder and director of the international music festival 'Levočské babie leto' (Indian Summer in Levoča), Slovakia.
1. 'Whatever the reasons'; 2. 'Eppes Rores - can a Jew be an artist?; 3. In the midst of many people: musical Europe: The Netherlands, England, Austria, Germany, France; 4. Jewry in music; Bibliography.
| Zusatzinfo | 10 Printed music items; 1 Tables, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 182 x 255 mm |
| Gewicht | 870 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781107015388 / 9781107015388 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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