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Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Analogous representations of unlikely crossover ethnic encounters are found elsewhere as well: There are …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… is certainly competent for its sort of standard ethnic comedy number, and Berlin’s reedy voice is … Abie by realizing that the future was not in these ethnic ditties but in the production of inclusively American … associates and friends, throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… and to increasing international interest in ‘world’ or ‘ethnic’ musics, classical Arabic music gained acceptance …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity . New York: Routledge, 2017. In Jews and Jazz , … Gershwin. In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage characters to perform, including Jewish, …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… power, performativity, and the politics of race, class and ethnicity within the discipline. Later studies of musical …
Milo Hamamah
… Israel in 1950. Learned Iraqi music in Israel, motivated by ethnic pride. Occasionally attempted to sing the Iraqi …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… musical and textual adaptations catering to different ethnic groups, religions, families, and individuals sharing …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… all ranks of the Hebrew people and from all the different ethnic groups [“’edot”] here, and also to collect melodies … he recorded, besides their name (usually without surnames), ethnic belonging and city of origin. Some informants were …
The Idelsohn Project
… who insisted that music and affect were inseparable from ethnic nationhood. Like his other creations, “Hava Nagila” …