This social history relates how a small society of immigrants and refugees established an internationally-recognized professional musical establishment in Palestine against the background of the two World Wars, local skirmishes and a full-scale national war. Professor Hirschberg opens with a description of music in Palestine under Ottoman rule, and proceeds to chart the development of music in the Jewish community over a 70-year period. He also surveys the ideological and social polemics which dominated the musical scene for the entire period.
- ISBN10 0585254044
- ISBN13 9780585254043
- Publish Date December 1996 (first published 2 March 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format eBook
- Language English