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Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… legislative design. Because of the “folk” origins of its music and the re-writing of Naftali Herz Imber’s poem … Hatikvah on account of the un-Jewishness of its tune or the ethnic exclusiveness of its text is a proof of how racial … Bohlman, Before Hebrew Song, in Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond , ed. …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical … most important early collectors and arrangers of Zionist music in America. In 1916, at the age of 21, Binder founded … signifiers that could suggest to listeners of different ethnic backgrounds a synthetic fusion of the stereotyped …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical purity (such as “universality” of … rabbinical figure whose authority transcended the internal ethnic divisions between Jews from the different lands of …
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 first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … and to increasing international interest in ‘world’ or ‘ethnic’ musics, classical Arabic music gained acceptance …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … politics and the complex relationship between religion, ethnicity and political affiliation. Cheikh Mwijo related to … immigrant women was but one topic related to this charged ethnic and cultural encounter from the 1990s, generated …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … (“Eastern Music”), obscures the long participation of ethnic minorities in local and regional music traditions or … records that Baidaphon released, one gets a sense of the ethnic diversity at stake here; besides music performed in …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany) and the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, … music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the footsteps of …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … Analogous representations of unlikely crossover ethnic encounters are found elsewhere as well: There are …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … 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 …
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 first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … and to increasing international interest in ‘world’ or ‘ethnic’ musics, classical Arabic music gained acceptance …