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Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… historical facts that could attest to the possible roles, functions, and the effects of Jewishness in his personal … a shared German-Jewish experience of “highly destabilizing social and cultural reality” (12). Unger, in other words, … specific configurations in which it is performed and the functions it fulfills. Following this, the issue at hand is …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… who had not enjoyed formal training. Chapter 3 covers the functions of music in daily life in Ethiopia and in Israel, … I describe. They also reflect a progressive engagement with social theory and particularly with race and Afro-Diasporic studies for understanding how social processes are intertwined with musical practices. In …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… aesthetics of these liturgical performances as well as the social mechanisms that generate them. I recorded this … the cantor in a melismatic melody without clear beat that functions as a transition to the next section. Your browser … analysis reveals the striking amount of historical, social and aesthetical information one can gather from a …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… ( al-maqam al-Iraqi ), this catchy song in maqam hijaz functions as a pasté , a pre-composed light song set to a … are intended for haflot (parties) and weddings, among other social events in which “Fog al-Nakhal” could likely have …
A cantor’s pledge in the High Holyday’s Provençal liturgy (Minhag Carpentras)
… century. A perception of this decay, the result of the resocialization of the Comtadin Jews into the mainstream of … of this selection of verses had different liturgical functions in the past? While the frozen musical notation in …