City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem

by Michael A Figueroa

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197546471
• ISBN13: 9780197546475
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 262 Pages