Figueroa, Michael A. - City of Song

In City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem, author Michael A. Figueroa presents an extensive history of Zionist musical discourses around Jerusalem in the long 20th century (1880-2010s), reorienting our understanding of the city's place in the Israeli-Palestine crisis.

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CONTENTS

Introduction: Musical Jerusalem: Listening to the City of Song
1 Metaphorical Jerusalem: Longing in Zionist Cultural Production
2 Forgotten Jerusalem: Zionism without Zion?
3 Haunted Jerusalem: Musical Memorialism and the Politics of Bereavement
4 Gilded Jerusalem: The Song that Took a City
5 Heterotopian Jerusalem: Politics of Difference in Dan Almagor's My Jerusalem
Epilogue