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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… 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 … bandleaders, including Benny Goodman, who had the most popular band in America throughout the 1930s (and who also …
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 … national reincarnation, sparked both media interest and the popular imagination. … But the community underwent (and …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… of its contents in the wider context of Hasidic music research is a desideratum. The present essay, focusing … source it was reprinted in M. Beregovski, Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski … thinking (expressed mostly in chordal melodic motifs) and popular urban rhythmic patterns to the Hassidic repertoire …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … al-Sheikh (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the … in Israel. The song was made famous by its recording by the popular singer Yehoram Gaon, whose family is of Eastern …
Jeff Klepper
… singer-songwriter style that took over American synagogue music during the second half of the 20th century. He started … HUC campus in New York. He cooperated with a lot of Jewish musicians; His best-known cooperation was with Rabbie Dan … is “Shalom Rav” which he composed in 1974 and is still a popular melody in synagogues around the globe. He also …
Dudu Tassa
… David 'Dudu' Tassa is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer of Mizrahi … Daud to Dudu: Israeli rock star makes classic Iraqi songs popular again ' . Radio France Internationale, (2019). … an Iraqi Revival' , Songlines, (2019). … Israeli rock musician, singer and songwriter … Muzika Mizrahit … Iraqi …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… / فوق النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, … history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … history, one can see how “Fog al-Nakhal” was canonized as a popular Arab song through the disbursement of commercial …
Craig Taubman
… a singer and composer, known both for his Jewish liturgical music for the synagogue and his popular contemporary music. Taubman studied music at UCLA … keyboards, and several singers. Those events were popular among young audiences and were attended by more than …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … For example, the transcription made by Idelsohn to the popular wedding song "Maq’helot ‘am", a poem by Mordecai … a version different than the one that eventually became popular in the contemporary practice of the descendants of …
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
… Judith R. Cohen and Risto Pekka Pennanen In 2008 the Jewish Music Research Centre released a 4-CD package entitled An … the forgotten voices of many Sephardic artists extremely popular a century and more ago, but also expands the … >>> “Los judíos españoles de Oriente: Lengua y literatura popular,” Buletin de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza IX, …