The aim of this conference is to discuss some of the most important aspects and problems in the study of Italian Jewish music repertoires, from the processes of formation and development of the different rituals/minhagim through the role of music in shaping, preserving, and transmitting Jewish identities, to the various meanings and understandings in this context of “learned music” as opposed to popular or traditional material, of music “modernity” and “antiquity”.
The conference marks the first three years of life of the Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, a project that is attempting to address the fragmentation of sources for Italian Jewish musical repertoires. While maintaining a musicological and ethnomusicological focus, the conference welcomes papers with a multidisciplinary approach.
