Edith Zack
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Edith Zack
Academic Research
My work centers on texts as signifiers of life, gender and culture. In other words, I interpret music, the visual arts, literature, and human life as a text that exist within a universe of texts. The language of each transcends the intention of the individual and defines the subjectivity of the work . Thus, understanding a text depends on a universe that was not necessarily intended to a-priori. However, it is all there – in the text
'Love of the Sirens', twenty mini biographies of women composers was translated from the Hebrew into English and Korean. These composers, and many more were active and known at their time. Alas, they were excluded from the history of music and culture for hundreds of years.
In this book the stage is theirs.
Books
Articles
My academic work centers on meaning and interpretation of music and the arts from a perspective of gender and culture. My main articles, including an entry on Amy Beach in the Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, were published in major professional journal such as 'semiotic studies', 'interdisciplinary studies in musicology', 'women’s writing',
'Love of the Sirens' is the first book published in Hebrew on women composers. It was received with enthusiasm by different mediums, and was reviewed by the Ministry of Education, the press (Ha’aretz, Jerusalem Post, Maariv, Makor Rishon – The Times of Israel), and by readers from different disciplines in the US, and in England.