Jewish Listening: A Reckoning - Josh Kun (USC) by Leve Center published on 2020-12-09T18:48:23Z https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/podcasts/ https://www.facebook.com/UCLACJS UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies 2019-2020 Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence Lecture Jewish Listening: A Reckoning Josh Kun In his public lecture, “Jewish Listening: A Reckoning”-- reimagined as a radio essay -- Kun will reflect on a lifetime of listening to music and explore what it means to be a Jewish listener, what it means to listen “as a Jew.” In particular, he will re-visit writing from earlier in his career on the history of Jewish-American music in the context of contemporary debates across Israel and Palestine. Can listening change the meanings of Jewishness? How does music interrupt the equivalencies of identity? What happens when a “Jewish” listener is immersed in the music of Palestine? What new music, what new musical positions, emerge? Acknowledgments: With gratitude to Rasha Hilwi, Sulafa Zidani, Abed Hathot, Ussama Makdisi, Bashar Murad, David A. McDonald, Mark LeVine, Ceci Bastida, and everyone at the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies for their support of this work. Genre Learning
