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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning, 1895−1965 . Toronto: University of Toronto … aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. … Forgotten Conductor: Heinz Unger and His Search for Jewish Meaning , 1895−1965 seems to question this …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Song”. For a start, it represents two of the four genres (Jewish, Irish, Italian, and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take … heart of what became Berlin’s true genius and of what was Jewish – or at least ‘Jew-ish’ – about Berlin’s life and … November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked … an eminent scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Netsky’s Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth Century Jewish Philadelphia (2015) and Walter Zev Feldman’s Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory (2016). Like those books, New York … resource—he offers background on the general history of Jewish-interest instrumental records in the early twentieth …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become … Smith, on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar … be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or neither? …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… at least in the intensity that characterized it throughout history, with the rise of the modern … making was one area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Arab encounter was intense. Shared musical spaces … in which they came to life and encounters between Arab and Jewish musicians from Morocco to Iraq. The project also …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library … has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they resurfaced in the aftermath of … inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… This project aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to … the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections … to integrate them within the narratives of European music history. Such a comprehensive approach does not …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… volunteer in Meseret , a center that supported traditional Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and … around an absorption center ( merkaz klita ), where new Jewish immigrants are housed, taught Hebrew, supported in … the qessim ’s authority. … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also …
Curt Sachs
… founders of modern organology (the study of the nature and history of musical instruments), he collaborated with Erich … publications that can be accessed online. Sachs Curt. World History of the Dance , (Ed. 1963). Biographies: Brown Hoard … as a theorist for music museology” in Music’s intellectual history to Blažeković Zdravko, MacKenzie Barbara Dobbs …