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Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… has stressed the rapid “hybridity” of Cypriot material culture in the Iron Age; immigrants included Minoan and … be underestimated (Sherratt 1992; Knapp 2008). Mycenaean cultural features did however endure and evolve within this … Amathus, apparently the island’s stronghold of Eteocypriot culture, bore Greek names (Gjerstad 1948: 430, 475 n. 5). … …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… of archaic Athens’ receptivity to the Eastern lifestyle and culture. The insistence of scholars on reading the earlier …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… CE. This period is noted by significant historical and cultural changes that brought to the region a thousand years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the changes, a …
Sounds from under the Ashes: The Music of Cults and Mysteries in the Ancient Vesuvian Land
… Sea in quest for new lands to settle, bringing with them a cultural heritage that included a pantheon and music. The … erupted, sealing the Vesuvian area along with its rich culture under layers of ash and lava. … 23471 … Roman … … Vesuvius … Ancient music … Ancient Musical Practices … Cultural heritage … Mediterranean culture … Sounds from …
Oren Roman
… Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture. Researcher of Yiddish literature, Kreitman … Cebter website. … 641 … Researcher of Jewish Ashkenazic culture … Ashkenazi … Oren Roman …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… , and notwithstanding recent publications of intricate cultural-historical scholarship concerning the Binding of … great significance of the ‘Akedah narrative in Ashkenazi culture, as expressed through the poems that were sung to … their thematic content, formal aspects, as well as their cultural contexts and functions. Special attention will be …
In The Land Of The Pyramids: A Secular Take On Passover
… dimensions. The song shows how in the modern period Jewish cultural memory is refracted anew through secular prisms and … them had immigrated. Against the paradigm whereas Yiddish culture had a “one-way” circulation, from the Old to the New … of Settlement. Songs were an integral component of this cultural commerce. Proletarian protest songs written in New …
Moshe Attias
… ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in … Mwijo up until his passing challenges narratives of forced cultural erasure by an aggressive Ashkenazi-dominated … women was but one topic related to this charged ethnic and cultural encounter from the 1990s, generated diverse and …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Gözlem Gazetcilik Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The … function. Regarding which version came first: this is difficult to determine. There is a wealth of sources related to …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying this … music with Hebrew sacred texts “elevates” Jewish musical culture, and introduced the Jews to the mainstream European … manuscript, arranged this time by Dr. Alon Schab, senior faculty member of the University of Haifa. They included items …