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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? …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… at least in the intensity that characterized it throughout history, with the rise of national/ethno-religious conflicts … making was an area of cultural expression in which the Jewish-Muslim encounter was intense. Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have …
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 …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the … analyzed in detail in that article. Research of Moroccan Jewish religious music has been largely, if not exclusively, … poems (piyyutim) spanning almost a millennium of literary history. This textual mixture creates a sonic tapestry that …
Pete Sokolow
… roots in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in klezmer history, including Dave Tarras , the Epstein Brothers , and … Multiple languages. By Yiddish Book Center: Regenerating Jewish Culture. Pete Sokolow discussed and demonstrated the …
Jeff Klepper
… Jeff Klepper is an American Jewish Cantor, and one of the pioneers of the … in the HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie … with Mark Slobin (sound). A part of Materials from the History of the American Cantorate project. Sheet music of …