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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … camps in Sudan—was housed in a nearby abandoned kindergarten. The center became home to older men who spun cloth on … Music Festival and the Red Sea Jazz festival. The kindergarten’s yard sported a traditional oven for baking injera …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … German-Jewish paradigm as it crystalized since the second quarter of the 19 th century mainly in Vienna, Berlin and … older improvised Ashkenazi forms of choral accompaniment), partially based on traditional tunes or consisting of …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … collection continue to this day, three decades after it started. The Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) is one of the … Kyiv collection for the benefit of the wider scholarly and artistic communities and the broader public. The present …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… a persistent relationality. These covert connections were partly renewed in the twenty-first century thanks to digital … means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem … daily calls to prayer within the streets of the Jewish Quarter. During her youth, she was surrounded by the women’s … these songs publicly. Rather, this repertoire remained part of the fabric of familial and communal life, transmitted …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … between aging players and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm … scholarly careers. Which may explain why his book, which started as a dissertation, tends to read like a better-written …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … pianist Willie “The Lion” Smith, an African-American, starts an enthusiastic conversation with bandleader Artie Shaw about Judaism. Although Shaw was a white …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive biographical article. Racheli Galay , cello Amit Weiner , piano Recorded …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of … of these musicians moved to Israel in the early 1950s, part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands, which had become … beyond. Some of these young masters would become important artists of the highest caliber, in Israel and …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … the early twentieth century, Jewish singers from various quarters of Istanbul, as well as from various cities of the … France, and later South America. Cordova and Algazi became partners during these years, and recorded Ottoman Hebrew …