Description

• Offers new readings on contemporary Israeli culture and politics
• Presents new analyses of contemporary music of the 20th and 21th centuries, featuring internationally renowned figures like Chaya Czernowin and Betty Olivero
• Broadens our knowledge of contemporary compositional thought
• Blurs the lines between art music in Israel, modern art music written by Jews, and contemporary music

The State of Afterness studies the histories of contemporary music written in and about Israel since the 1980s. With afterness defined as the state of being unconditioned by territorialism, author Assaf Shelleg shows how composers gradually opted for national diasporism while reacknowledging the need to open up Jewish culture to contemporary aesthetic norms. Looking at operatic, symphonic, chamber, and electronic works, this book narrates the cultural history of an Israeli nation and a Jewish civilization still at odds.

Contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. Abbreviations
3. Illustrations
4. Music Examples
5. Introduction: The Afterness of State Afterness
6. Chapter 1: Adamot Do Not Be Like Your Fathers Hebrew Culture as a Non-Reference A Tel Avivian Ecosystem Shifting Golem Postmodern Ethnographies? The Poetics of Distance Binding (Oneself) Expand
7. Chapter 2: Pnima Transcribing Disnarration See Under: Love Inward (pnima) Securing the Disfigured Adama (and Mozart, Too) Local Renderings Ethnographic Renderings Atrophy (Willing and Unwilling)
8. Notes
9. Index