4:00 PM
Harkness Chapel, Classroom
Music colloquia provide a weekly forum for presentation and discussion of recent research by distinguished visitors and CWRU faculty and graduate students in musicology, historical performance practice, and music education.
All talks happen on Fridays at 4:00 PM in Harkness Classroom and are open to the public.
About the Talk
"Muting Territorialism"
Territorialism has been animating the Zionist project from its very outset. Couched in literal readings of the Bible and tropes of return to (and of) the Land of Israel, territorialism conditioned compositional practice, be it my means of duplication or resistance. Musicological attention given to this ecosystem, at the same time, locked it into its cultural, ethnic, or geographical roots, even when territorialism ceased to become a reference in composers’ works. Discussing the music of Betty Olivero and Chaya Czernowin, this talk will demonstrate the dilution of territorial nationalism amid a musicological discourse that still abides by Otherness.
About the Speaker
Assaf Shelleg, a professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of the awards winning book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (Oxford University Press, 2020). Shelleg is also a music contributor for Haaretz, and a curator for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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