Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
François Guesnet ◽  
Benjamin Matis ◽  
Antony Polonsky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Religious Music ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Anthropology Of Music ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on Jewish musicians and Jewish music-making in the Polish lands. It examines the astounding variety of music of all genres and styles produced by musicians of Jewish heritage in Europe since 1750. It also places the modern study of Jewish music between Jewish studies, cultural studies, and the anthropology of music as a fascinating opportunity for a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues of Jewish musical life. The chapter explores the activities and creativity of Jewish musicians as they worked in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its successor states. It describes the character of traditional cantorial and religious music and the way this was transformed by the changes in Jewish religious practice.

The Well-Mannered Auditor

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Deaville
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Drawing Room ◽  
The Way

The chapter explores the way English-language etiquette books from the nineteenth century prescribe accepted behavior for upwardly mobile members of the bourgeoisie. This advice extended to social events known today as “salons” that were conducted in the domestic drawing room or parlor, where guests would perform musical selections for the enjoyment of other guests. The audience for such informal music making was expected to listen attentively, in keeping with the (self-) disciplining of the bourgeois body that such regulations represented in the nineteenth century. Yet even as the modern world became noisier and aurally more confusing, so, too, did contemporary social events, which led authors to become stricter in their disciplining of the audience at these drawing room performances. Nevertheless, hosts and guests could not avoid the growing “crisis of attention” pervading this mode of entertainment, which would lead to the modern habit of inattentive listening.

PROLOGUE: Cultural Studies—The Way Forward

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. v-x
Author(s):  
Rex Nettleford
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Way

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 32

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Jewish Involvement

With its five thematic sections covering genres from cantorial to classical to klezmer, this pioneering multi-disciplinary volume presents rich coverage of the work of musicians of Jewish origin in the Polish lands. It opens with the musical consequences of developments in Jewish religious practice: the spread of hasidism in the eighteenth century meant that popular melodies replaced traditional cantorial music, while the greater acculturation of Jews in the nineteenth century brought with it synagogue choirs. Jewish involvement in popular culture included performances for the wider public, Yiddish songs and the Yiddish theatre, and contributions of many different sorts in the interwar years. Chapters on the classical music scene cover Jewish musical institutions, organizations, and education; individual composers and musicians; and a consideration of music and Jewish national identity. One section is devoted to the Holocaust as reflected in Jewish music, and the final section deals with the afterlife of Jewish musical creativity in Poland, particularly the resurgence of interest in klezmer music. The chapters do not attempt to define what may well be undefinable—what “Jewish music” is. Rather, they provide an original and much-needed exploration of the activities and creativity of “musicians of the Jewish faith.“

scholarly journals Golosina canibal 2.0

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimena Néspolo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Juan Jose Saer ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Way

This article offers a reading of the novel El Entenado (1982) by Juan José Saer, analysing the way in which it is inserted within the author’s system and within the Argentinean literary canon. The Saerian heritage is resignified by cannibalism and its presence in cultural studies. ‘Cannibalism’ stresses a relativised opposition between interior and exterior by founding an exuberant de-colonial polysemy that challenges the stigma of savagery and barbarism with which classical historiography has characterised the New World. The cannibal cleavage of texts published after the year 2000 – texts singularly crossed by the migration experience – plays with a culture of knowledge and flavour, eating and being-eaten.

scholarly journals Coisas Obscuras: representações de meninas do ensino médio sobre lesbianidade(s)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Talita Gonçalves MEDEIROS ◽  
Marcio CAETANO
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
High School Girls ◽  
School Girls ◽  
School Space ◽  
The Way

O presente estudo possuiu como objetivo interrogar e compreender as representações sobre a(s) lesbianidade(s) produzidas por estudantes de uma escola agrícola da região sul do estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A pesquisa, orientada pelos Estudos Culturais Lesbofeministas, produziu seus dados a partir de “rodas de conversas” complementadas por anotações no “diário de campo”. Partindo das análises dos dados, podemos apontar que as estudantes possuem visões e entendimentos conceituais a respeito da(s) lesbianidade(s) e que esses já possuem um posicionamento crítico frente à forma como a mulher é retratada na sociedade. Entretanto, a temática “lesbianidade(s)” – não diferente da forma como as demais mulheres são retratadas na escola-, é atravessada pela invisibilidade histórico-escolar e quando visível, ancora-se em representações mediadas somente pela violência.Lesbianidade(s). Escola. Diálogo. Lesbofeminismo.Obscure Things: representations of high school girls about lesbianity(s)AbstractThe present study aimed to interrogate and understand the representations about the lesbianity (ies) produced by students of an agricultural school in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul state. The research, guided by the Lesbofeminist Cultural Studies, produced its data through "circles of conversation" supplemented by notes of the "field diary". From the analysis of the data, we can point out that the students have conceptual visions and understandings about the lesbian(s) and that they already have a critical position regarding the way in which the woman is portrayed in society. However, the theme of "lesbianity (ies)" - not unlike the way other women are represented in school - is crossed by the invisibility at school space and, when visible, is anchored in representations mediated only by violence.Lesbianity (s).School. Dialogue. Lesbofeminismo

The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Musical Time ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Profound Insight

As the art that calls most attention to temporality, music provides us with profound insight into the nature of time, and time equally offers us one of the richest lenses through which to interrogate musical practice and thought. In this volume, musical time, arrayed across a spectrum of genres and performance/compositional contexts is explored from a multiplicity of perspectives. The contributions to the volume all register the centrality of time to our understanding of music and music-making and offer perspectives on time in music, particularly though not exclusively attending to contemporary forms of musical work. In sharing insights drawn from philosophy, music theory, ethnomusicology, psychology of performance and cultural studies, the book articulates a range of understandings on the metrics, politics and socialities woven into musical time.

Musical Exegesis in the Transylvanian Style, Composed by Dimitrie Cuntanu, at Our Lord’s Birth Catavasia

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-216
Author(s):  
Daniel Mocanu
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Religious Music ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
Musical Heritage ◽  
The Way

"The Orthodox religious music in Transylvanian tradition has a unique history. It gained an important place in the Romanian musical heritage, by the way it managed to adapt to Romanian, in its own style, the psaltic musical repertoire, of Byzantine tradition. Build from the oral tradition, which, in its turn blended with folklore, cult music, and the other co-existing cults, and from psaltic tradition, Dimitrie Cuntanu’s work fairly represents, the first Transylvanian religious musical monument of Romanian root. The Byzantine musical origin of this paper can be detected, together with other works, from the musical structures of the first Katavasia established by Cuntanu, at Lord’s Birth Feast. Transformed to Romanian by different anonymous protagonists of the Transylvanian music, the Lord’s Birth Catavasia represents a Hrysantic exegesis reference of Byzantine music, in a Transylvanian style. Keywords: Catavasia, Byzantine music, Anton Pann, Cuntanu, Romanian adaptation "

Introduction: Music-making in Domestic Space

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBORAH HOWARD
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Early Modern France ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern France ◽  
The Subject

The introduction sets the forthcoming chapters in the broader context of musical life in Early Modern France and Italy, with reference to existing scholarship on the subject. The occasions and locations in which musical performance took place are outlined, and the scope of the book is defined, stressing the close connections between France and Italy. A growing number of studies of secular music-making consider the social and ideological framework for performance, but usually without serious consideration of architectural settings. Yet these were crucial to the acoustic quality of the performance, for both players and listeners. The chapter therefore underlines the need for an interdisciplinary approach, to establish the background for the study of the emergence of the permanent theatre.

German-Jewish Literature and Culture and the Field of German-Jewish Studies

2007 ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
Mark H. Gelber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
German Society ◽  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
European Culture ◽  
German Jewish

This chapter delineates the parameters of developments and relationships to the 'Jewish contribution discourse'. It notes the marginality of Jewish culture in present-day Germany that has enabled the emergence of the quintessential post-modern field of cultural studies in Germany and the basis for diverse criticism. It also mentions Moritz Goldstein, who boldly claimed in his 'Deutsch-jüdischer Parnass' that the Jews in Germany had become the custodians and arbiters of the spiritual treasures of German society. The chapter explores the understanding of European culture as largely Jewish, which militates against the idea of a possible Jewish contribution to that culture since the term 'contribution' appears to make little sense if the Jewish element is the dominant one. It explains the concept of a contribution that rests on the notion of a dominant host culture to which guests might contribute.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 188-192
Author(s):  
Justine Buck Quijada
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Way

The epilogue re-caps the arguments presented in the previous chapters, and revisits Bakhtin’s idea of the chronotope as an analytic terminology for an anthropology of history. The epilogue argues that a comparative approach to indigenous revitalization projects in post-Soviet secular Buryatia reveals the contingent and creative nature of human conceptions of time and space, and the productive capacity of ritual. The chronotopes indexed in rituals exist as negotiated, contingent, performative evocations of pasts that continuously produce Buryats as subjects in the present. The epilogue also reminds readers that all the previous chapters are linked by the way in which contemporary Buryats emphasize materiality as proof for belief, and argues that this is a secular conception that undergirds contemporary Siberian religious practices. The materiality of ritual appears to participants to exceed its explanations, grounding revived post-Soviet religious practice in a secular discourse of evidentiary proof.

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