Jewish Performance as a Means for Constructing the Society of “Living Together”

In this article, I propose an ethnography of the Festival Internacional Murcia Tres Culturas, and more particularly of the performance of the Sandra Bessis Trio to reflect on the means, role and impact of the representation of Jewish identity in a Spanish World Art/World Music festival. On one hand,...

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Main Author: Roda, Jessica (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: European journal of jewish studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 104-125
Further subjects:B Festival performance representation sacralization, “living together” world music world art Sephardicness Judeo-Spanish Spain
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Summary:In this article, I propose an ethnography of the Festival Internacional Murcia Tres Culturas, and more particularly of the performance of the Sandra Bessis Trio to reflect on the means, role and impact of the representation of Jewish identity in a Spanish World Art/World Music festival. On one hand, we discern that the festival organizers sacralize the time of Convivencia to create a cosmopolitan event; and on the other that the Trio plays between the desacralization and the sacralization of this past, by using various performance strategies that mobilize instruments, language, repertoire and musicians identity to proceed it.
ISSN:1872-471X
Contains:In: European journal of jewish studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-12341258