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Hayrana Laih
… is popular in the Arab world, but also has connections to Jewish musical contexts and musicians. The lyrics of Hayrana … Daoud Hosni (1870-1937), an Egyptian composer of Karaite Jewish origins composed it in 1932 for the Egyptian singer … Murad: Popular Culture and the Politics of Ethnoreligious Identity,” in The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, …
Brakha Tzefira
… Tzefira knew from her childhood including Sephardic songs, Jewish songs from Yemen, Persia, and Bukhara, as well as … continued collecting songs and melodies from oriental Jewish communities, Bedouins, and Arabs, which were then … together and thus gain a new understanding of their identity, but through the years, as the songs they created …
Karaite Jews Musical Tradition
… namely, emphasizing distinct Eastern and Western Karaite identity, as well as the continuous renewal that takes place … melody to the same text is performed by Avraham Kanai, a Jewish Karaite from Kazakhstan. The third melody originated … 'The Role of Music in the Renewed Self Identity of Karaite Jewish Refuge Communities from Cairo.' Traditional Music 22 …
Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land
… music, and the cultural-political context of being a young Jewish musician during the second intifada. During the … outlook on their music, their political opinions, and their Jewish identity, and how they all connect. The film gives a special …
‘I’m Sorry, It’s Yom Kippur’: Atonement through Punk (and Traditional Jewish Music)
… playing in 2010 and are a self-proclaimed ‘100% Trans Jewish band.’ One definition to the term transgender can be … and female, or who inhabit an alternate, non-binary, gender identity.' [1] Schmekel are a unique band in regards to … other genres, punk music, polkas, cantorial singing, and Jewish melodies (including direct musical quotes from …
Yiddish Folksong (The Music of the Yiddish Folksong)
… baby, a secular activity, was sometimes accompanied by non-Jewish melodies, sometimes by religious melodies, and … But these rhymes hardly imply the principles of the Jewish faith, and not even one of the 613 Mitzvas that the … In fact, the question of the Yiddish folksong's identity comes up from the earliest remaining documentation …
Israeli folksongs
… songs that deal mostly with themes that the majority of the Jewish population of Israel (not including the … attempts to use tradition as the platform for national identity. This genre was created as an effort on the part of the first Aliyah (Jewish-Zionist immigration and settling in Palestine) to …
The Israeli Mediterranean Style
… versions of European Mediterranean styles in art music that Jewish composers—the founders of Israeli music, among them … mostly until the early 1950s, denoting an emerging national identity through local color in music. It was also qualified … rhythmic, and structural elements in his music. Leading Jewish composers of the time, almost all raised and educated …
In Zaltsikn Yam - A Yiddish Workers' Song
… In honor of May Day and the tradition of Jewish political radicalism in late nineteenth-century … 1901 by S. An-sky (Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport [1863-1920]) the Jewish writer, ethnographer, poet, and radical. The song's … their relevance to contemporary politics and questions of identity [See this interview for example]. Psoy Korolenko, …
«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
… the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music, the composer Solomon Rosowsky published a … days a half century earlier: [1] “Why are there so many Jewish students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory? Because … protean, politically embedded nature of Jewish national identity, as well as the culturalist goals animating Jewish …