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Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive …
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 , … and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … Gershwin. In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage characters to perform, …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … power, performativity, and the politics of race, class and ethnicity within the discipline. Later studies of musical …
Milo Hamamah
… Well-known singer of Iraqi music in Israel. Born in Iraqi, immigrated to 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
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some cases it … 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)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … 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
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … niggun) Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, was a European-born Jewish musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable from ethnic nationhood. Like his other creations, “Hava Nagila” …
4. La constitución se dió (Jacob Algava)
… citizens into the military that became obligatory also for ethnic and religious minorities. The refrain in Turkish … Turks. The record label defines this song as “Turkish.” Its musical style however is overtly that of a Western military … - Ladino … Ladino Songs … Ottoman Empire … Sephardi music … Salonica … Saloniki … Thessaloniki … Eastern …
Uri Sharvit
… in 1939. He received his diploma from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1965, his bachelor's degree from the … Columbia in 1977. Since 1973 he has been a professor of music at Bar-Ilan University and professor of … Festival in Tzfat from 1990 to 1993, and as director of ethnic music master classes at the Jerusalem Music Center …
Anu Be-hamon Shir
… from the Aleppo Mahzor (1527) … Contemporary Israeli Music … Ethnic music … Israeli art music … Israeli composers … Israeli …