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Contemporary American Jewish Music
… non-Jews alike, the idea of a thriving secular Yiddish song culture seems absurd. Most scholarly discussions suggest … ‘klezmer revival’ of the late 20th century brought Yiddish culture to a new, younger audience, spawning new fusions of … This paper will assess the present state of Yiddish song culture in America, considering in particular how young …
Bloch: Known and Unknown
… a wider phenomenon of negotiation of identities and cultures. Dalia Atlas, Technion, Haifa, Head of The Ernest …
The Jewish Bloch
… generated 'nation-portraits' in view of the music-cum-culture-oriented commentators. Such a cultural discourse …
Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture
… … Gesture, Dance and Melody in Traditional Ashkenazi Culture …
In Which Direction Do Hebrews Play Music?: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Musical Aesthetics of Zionism
… history of cultural Zionism and the formation of Israeli culture. Scholars of Hebrew literature have focused … models in the aesthetic development of Modern Hebrew culture. This paper proposes to explore what translation and … Put differently, how and why did Idelsohn translate German culture—and the German language (“ safah kulturit ”)—into …
The Father of Jewish Musicology and the Natives: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn and the Yemenites
… capturing what he thought was the entirety of this exotic culture. This was no doubt a result of ardent national …
Diwan
… In Arab culture, a Diwan is an anthology of poems by one or several …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical culture of the Sephardi Jews of Spain (tunes of … or Arabic maqamat and melodies of the surrounding musical cultures became embedded in the Sephardi liturgical and … Baqqashot is the result of developments in the musical culture of the Middle East in general, and in Jerusalem in …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… against the background of the various Ashkenazi musical cultures. The Ashkenazi tradition of this pizmon comprises … and had embraced the music aesthetics of the surrounding culture. The balanced course of Southern melody, with its …
Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… modernizing trends characterized by an exposure to Western culture (most particularly French), to liberal trends in …