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Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… Another field recording of nominally Persian Jews is a live performance produced in collaboration between Gerson-Kiwi … community was forced to convert to Islam in 1839 and had to practice Judaism secretly for generations. In 1946, they …
NigunimBimBom
… nigunim as they were shaped by time, place, and communal practice. The database is designed to accommodate expansions … Yiddish, and English—and can be carried out by dynasties, performance contexts, titles, personal names, genres, and …
"Evolution of Jewish Music": Discourse Communities and Narrative Construction in the Performance of Music History
… the hard work and immense skill that went into these performances makes them excellent subjects of analysis. … She writes: Memory constructs that inform commemorative practices and traditions are therefore not necessarily false … Shalom,” sung by Dedi Graucher, an Orthodox pop star (the performance depicted here seems to imitate the 2004 disc …
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Exhibition
… Landsberg describes in terms of “prosthetic memory” and the performance studies scholar Baz Kershaw situates within the … likewise reminds us that museums are “performances of knowledge,” transforming fragments into … empathy, suspicion, irony—that any subsequent memorial practice must navigate. In this sense, the Nova Exhibition …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… and reflect both the historical breadth of the poem’s practice and its Ashkenazi, Moroccan, and Yemenite performance traditions. For further discussion of its history, performance, and reception, see the SOM September 2014 , …
Translating Tropes (and Psalmodies): New Sources on Steve Reich’s Ethnographic Imports
… effect of this study,” he remarked, “was to result in some practice” (OHAM 186, J, 2), which meant neither composing … PSS). In practice, however, it was the logogenic performance of the liturgical text, namely, the melodic … of Hassidic and klezmer music. There are no records of a performance of Reich’s works at Hebrew University from …
14. Sebhatat-‘Amlake lǝkʷelu manfas
… responsorial. A long solo section follows, which is a rare practice in the Beta Israel liturgy. The mourning context of this prayer adds emotional depth to the soloist’s performance. … 42 … 60 … 7 … 46615 … 3 CDs + 1 Booklet … …
43. The Song of Mother Sarah
… including animal sacrifice)—as well as a reference to the practice of animal sacrifice in biblical times. … recording of this song—which was part of a kalippattu dance performance by women in Moshav Taoz—demonstrates a …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… of classical Andalusian music. In these “extramural” performances, Buzaglo was accompanied by Muslim musicians. … a task that demands great poetic dexterity. This practice was common in the Ottoman Empire but much less so … Yom Kippur order of prayers is exemplary. This is a precise performance of this unique prayer in the traditional and …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… employs a narrative strategy, analyzing “the conception, performance, and reception” of a single Habad nign, … in the corpus are transcribed from the instrumental performance characteristic of Israeli Hasidic music. This … vocalizations sung without words. Apparently, this practice fostered the shared musical scales in cantorial and …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… of seven verses as those from Algeria. … To conclude, the practice of using strings of Psalm verses (instead of whole … in the Jewish liturgy is common. What is unique to the practice documented in Minhag Carpentras is the use of Psalm verses as a pledge by the cantor (and, as the performance from Ghardaïa shows, the congregation) to have …
סיור סליחות מבוזר: תיווכו של הפיוט "אדון הסליחות" מבתי הכנסת הספרדיים אל המוזיקה הפופולרית בישראל
… "Borderland Pop: Arab Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance." Cultural Anthropology 21 (2), 205-233. … 11: 1-22. Wolf, Richard K. 2006. "The Poetics of “Sufi” Practice: Drumming, Dancing, and Complex Agency at Madho Lāl … mid-20th century onward. Despite its origins in religious practice, "Adon Haselihot" has transcended its traditional …


