The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music

Contents

• Introduction Joshua S. Walden;
• Part I . Conceptions of Jewish Music:
• 1. Ontologies of Jewish music Philip V. Bohlman;
• 2. Jewish music and Diaspora Edwin Seroussi;
• 3. The institutions of Jewish musical meaning Judah M. Cohen;
• 4. Jewish music and media of sound reproduction Joshua S. Walden;
• Part II . Jewish Music in Religious, Folk, and Popular Contexts:
• 5. The music of Israel during the Iron Age Theodore W. Burgh;
• 6. Jewish liturgical music Mark Kligman;
• 7. The traditional performance of Sephardic songs, then and now Susana Weich-Shahak;
• 8. Klezmer music - a historical overview to the present Joel Rubin;
• Part III . Periods, Places, and Genres of Jewish Music Composition:
• 9. Art music and Jewish culture before the Jewish Enlightenment: negotiating identities in Late Renaissance Italy Joshua R. Jacobson;
• 10. A new song: Jewish musicians in European music, 1730-1850 David Conway;
• 11. From biblical antiquarianism to revolutionary modernism: Jewish art music, 1850-1925 James Loeffler;
• 12. The reform of synagogue music in the nineteenth century Tina Fruhauf;
• 13. Under pressure: Jewish art music, 1925-1945 Lily E. Hirsch;
• 14. Music in the Yiddish theater and cinema, 1880-1950 Mark Slobin;
• 15. Art music in the Yishuv and in Israel Jehoash Hirshberg;
• 16. Cavernous impossibilities: Jewish art music after 1945 Amy Lynn Wlodarski.