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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … the qessim ’s authority. … Questions about the origins, history and (pre-halakhic) Judaism of Beta Israel had also …
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 … to integrate them within the narratives of European music history. Such a comprehensive approach does not …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … the Kyiv collection] has attracted the attention of musicians and scholars of Jewish music ever since they … inspections of the collections.” (Zachary M. Baker, History of the Jewish Collections at the Vernadsky Library …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… at least in the intensity that characterized it throughout history, with the rise of national/ethno-religious conflicts … means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus 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 …
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 a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of …