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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor

… Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the idea of historical influence: they aim at demonstrating how … and a generalized historical context is replaced by the idea of historical embodiment; the historical subject, in … inclusion or exclusion from Jewishness and embrace the idea that “all spaces represented different yet still equal …

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

… stations, LPs and more). Its development was entwined with ideas and processes of modernization. Warkov focused … in Iraq had always been agents of change, exchanging ideas with visiting Egyptian and Iranian musicians and introducing these ideas into local repertoires, but they were all fluently …

Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

… of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, he embraces the idea that canonical figures can define a musical style, and that a ready community will receive and debate his ideas with a deep sense of mission. Beyond Rubin’s larger … taking the reader through his intricate system of ideas with methodical precision. Yet especially in the first …

Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity

… book, we can better see some of the problematic racial ideas that have distorted both the histories of jazz and of …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural … mutual compliments, etc.). They promoted new aesthetic ideals of ritual through the publication and distribution of … goal of tracing the historical unfolding of new aesthetic ideals and systems of social representation in Ashkenazi …