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Contemporary American Jewish Music
… Joel E. Rubin, Department of Music, University of Virginia “Redefining what a Jew means in this time”: Shifting … and Dave Tarras. Through ethnographic interviews with a cross-section of performers involved in the contemporary … I argue, the involvement with klezmer music represents a “redefining what a Jew means in this time.” Abigail Wood, Joe …
Musical Israeliness
… Mershon Center, Ohio State University Zehava Ben: Singing Across Irresolvable Geographies and Counter Constituencies … music by Mizrahi singers. Building on the gains of her predecessors who fought to find a listening audience beyond …
Zehava Ben: Singing Across Irresolvable Geographies and Counter Constituencies
… music by Mizrahi singers. Building on the gains of her predecessors who fought to find a listening audience beyond … … Jerusalem … … 2009 … Amy Horowitz … Zehava Ben: Singing Across Irresolvable Geographies and Counter Constituencies …
A Crossroads of Jewish Music Scholarship: A. Z. Idelsohn and the Publication of Jewish Music in its Historical Development
… and ethnographic research with analytical techniques acquired through his own education, Idelsohn attempted to give … epistemology, with its own consistent (if sometimes obscured) musical tradition. While Idelsohn’s treatise was in one … … 57 … 15 … Jerusalem … … 2009 … Judah M. Cohen … A Crossroads of Jewish Music Scholarship: A. Z. Idelsohn and …
Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)
… (plural of lahan, tune or melody) to which Najara required his piyyutim to be sung are borrowed from the musical … Ottoman/Turkish musical culture, which up to then had been predominant in the Sephardi Jewish liturgy and piyyut singing … Baqqashot are performed today in various synagogues across Israel, in towns and cities such as Kiryat Shemona, …
Bin Tavinu Liqnot Bina Ha'azinu
… for his piyyutim (a technique that is generally referred to as 'contrafactum'). A large portion of Najara's … Arab, Spanish and Greek songs, or on Hebrew piyyutim he favored. In the printed editions of Najara's songs, and also in … finally forgotten. With the rapid spread of his songs all across the Mediterranean Jewish world, the local singers, …
Hayrana Laih
… stem from the popular songs he composed (more than five hundred), which he wrote for Egypt’s most popular singers of the … Egyptian music. [2] His songs and compositions were played across the Arab world, and are still performed and remembered today. The memorialization of Daoud Hosni is a matter of …
Hay ram galeh
… modern Egyptian song Hayrana Laih by Daoud Hosni that featured in our previous Song of the Month. Hay ram galeh was … Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a trained poet but … orthodox Sephardic Jews, Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, and performs across Israel and abroad. He is also an accomplished player …
The Tedeschian Community
… the rules of the Hebrew Nikkud, the Shva Na is only considered as a half-vowel. The Italian, and the Tedeschian … it appears in the end of a word, this new vowel can be compared to 'Pattach Genova.' [3] However, despite the motivation … have a specific geographical spot, and may be scattered across a big territory. The Tedeschian community was …
Elohim Eshala
… this long-play appears to be then a strategic decision geared to stress an essentialized “Israeli exoticism” that … as well as his American experience of 1949-1950 when he toured with Damari and recorded with her in New York City. … Archives of the National Library in Jerusalem. They are a cross-section of this rich and yet problematic musical …