City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem

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Michael A. Figueroa (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina)

City of Song

Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem

Michael A. Figueroa (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina)

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Oxford University Press Inc
09 June 2022

Music; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Middle Eastern history; Religion & beliefs; Ethnic studies

Modern Jerusalem, a city central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is to put it mildly a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth century. In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa argues that musical renderings of Jerusalem have been critical to the formation of Israeli political consciousness. The book demonstrates how Israeli songwriters helped to shape their public's territorial imagination-- creating images of a city at once heavenly and earthly, that dwells in longing, that must not be forgotten, that compels one to bereave the dead, that represents the fulfilment of prophecy, and that is the site of immense cultural diversity. The dynamic history of its representation in lyrics and music helps dispel any notion that the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is timeless, intractable, and based on static, essential identities; while there are continuities across historical divides, radical change constantly transpires. City of Song combines analyses of musical meaning, political discourse, and public performance over the long twentieth century (1880s-2010) to reveal how the Israeli-Palestinian crisis' territorial fixation on Jerusalem has been constructed, historically contingent, and subject to artistic intervention in modernity. Through a musical history of Jerusalem, Figueroa introduces a novel, humanities-centered approach to one of the world's most contested cities, and one of the defining cultural and political questions of our era.

By: Michael A. Figueroa (Associate Professor of Music Associate Professor of Music University of North Carolina)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 226mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 388g
ISBN: 9780197546437
ISBN 10: 0197546439
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 09 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem

Roaming the city's sonic spaces with histories managed and unmanaged by Zionist accounts, City of Song synthesizes Jerusalem the metaphorical and the material while traversing through its diasporic outposts, poetic longings, and contemporary anxieties. Read this book and you too will consider referring to Jerusalem in the plural. Jerusalems! * Assaf Shelleg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author of Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (OUP 2014) and Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (OUP 2020) * City of Song is an important addition to the growing bookshelf on Israel/Palestine and its musics. Through his engaging dialogue with multiple disciplines, Figueroa exposes Jerusalem and its representation in Hebrew song as a treasure trove of contested meanings, historical narratives, and political imaginations. * Oded Erez, Bar-Ilan *