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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… an Irish Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… shows also the porosity between diverse Sephardi literary genres in different languages, written and oral. A Hebrew …
Moshe Cordova
… aforementioned Isaac Algazi. Both are in the yürük semai genre in makam Beyati. A copy of the recording of the second …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… set of materials into a similarly imperfect statement about genre and style. Rubin employs strategies that help him gain … (drawn on Benjamin Harshav’s) that allows him to view the genre as a common mode of expression with its own variations … Rubin also cites) as both an analyst and as a master of the genre. Rubin’s conclusions can seem wonky—especially his …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… studies that address how Arab, Turkish and Persian musical genres, modal frameworks and rhythms influenced the …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… networks of musicians, musical traditions, repertories, genres, and styles that were prevalent in the regions … to establish their particular intersections between events, genres, modes, traditional vs. “progressive” musical styles, …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… were young, and who favored reggae and hip-hop over other genres. Shabtay views their identification with these music genres—reggae for its Ethiopian referents and rap because it …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian musical genres, not only to selections of Al-Ala, but also those … Abdel Ghani al-Sheikh (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles … pattern of Moroccan Jewish prayer includes five distinctive genres of non-verbal sound patterning: 1) extremely fast …
Abraham Salman
… was also idiomatic, and he performed in a variety of genres, from the local Iraqi maqam to the cosmopolitan … also composed music for films and participated in several genre-bending recordings. Among such projects were his … shelakh') , Sanderson's 1984 take on the then-emerging genre of Israeli 'Oriental' pop ( musika mizrahit ; aka …
Armand Sabah
… acquired. From a young age, Sabah was exposed to various genres of Moroccan music. At age six, after persistent …