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Pete Sokolow
… in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in … and been an important figure in the revival of klezmer music. Sokolow has orchestrated numerous albums, musicals … to the music of Dave Tarras . Biography from The American Folklife Center . Interviews with Pete Sokolow: Peter …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, dominated by the … belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the Greater Syria region. It is widespread …
Curt Sachs
… Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and composition as a youth in that city. He … as an art historian, but promptly became more devoted to music, eventually being appointed director of the Staatliche … Claudie. “Curt Sachs.” Journal of the International Folk Music Council 12 (1960): 88–89. (in French) … …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie narodnyie pesni [Jewish Folk Songs] – the collection that Beregovski prepared for … 1962 source it was reprinted in M. Beregovski, Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … context, is also favored over other available choices: a folklorized, depoliticized Ethiopianness or alternatively, … music in Israel occurring in the moment of transition, when folkloric styles played by community members were not only a …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public … and transmission of religious values, customs and folklore of German Jewry as they existed prior to the …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … documentation of Eastern European Jewish music and folklore. The complicated paths of encounter between … , at the time the Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the … Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur: Qanun master, composer and …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourns the passing of Moroccan Jewish folk singer Alicia (Benassayag) Bendayan on Friday, June 11, … appeared on commercial recordings, such as the important Folkways release, Ballads, Wedding Songs, and Piyyutim of …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online world-premiere recording of … scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and folk tunes of Eastern European and Babylonian Jewish …