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Possessed voices : aural remains from modernist Hebrew theater /
"Audio recordings are a valuable tool for understanding historical theater, yet they have seldom been used in scholarship. Possessed Voices tells the intriguing story of a largely unknown collection of recordings preserving performances of modernist interwar Hebrew plays. Ruthie Abeliovich focu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Suny series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface: In the Synagogue; Introduction; Modernist Hebrew Theater; Melodies of the Hebrew Language; Possessed Voices; Nostalgic "Sound Souvenirs"; Listening to Theater; Chapter One The Messiah's Mother Lamentation: The Sonic Imagination of The Eternal Jew; The Messiah's Mother Lamentation; Franz Rosenzweig's Cry: What Does Melodious Recitation Do?; Habima Imagining Grief; The Liminality of Voice; Chapter Two The Rise and Fall: The Return of The Dybbuk and the Making of the Acoustic Community
- Between Two Worlds: Visual Imaginations and Aural RealmsThe Haunting Archive and the Voices of the Dead; "Mipnei Ma?" An Oratorical Moment of Participatory Singing; The Speech Community: The Rise-Fall Contour in Speech and Melody; The Heterophonic Chorus: Noise and Disorder on Stage; In Plural Voice: Performing Dissociation; Where Do We Meet? The Making of the Acoustic Theatrical Community; Chapter Three "Who Will Save Us?" Hebrew Specters and the Performativity of Cultural Rupture in The Golem; The Golem-A Medium; Inside The Golem: Spectral Voices; How to Revive Spirits with Words
- The Paradigm Shift in Habima's Dramatic RecitationA Hebrew Actor or a Golem? A Machine Learning Language; Distorted Voices: Forgetting the Past, Inventing Tradition; "Who Will Save Us?" Post-Holocaust Vocal Apparitions; Chapter Four Yaakov and Rachel: The Experience of Source; Experience of Source: Attending the Archive; Modernizing the Biblical Drama: Embodying Myth; "Being There": Cross-Cultural Vocal Gestures; Enacting the Sources of the Hebrew Language; From Possession to Dispossession: 1928/1952; Epilogue: Against Ephemerality; The Dead Sing; Notes; Bibliography; Index