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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some cases it … 1932. She also received a field recording of the mother of classical composer Brian Elias, who moved to Bombay in 1926 …
Armand Sabah
… Israel with his family at age ten. His father came from a musical family related to the renowned Moroccan singer and … formal music education in Israel, studying accordion, classical guitar, piano, and violin with private instructors, focusing primarily on Western classical music. After completing his studies at Himmelfarb …
Dudu Tassa
… David 'Dudu' Tassa is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer of Mizrahi … Hird, Alison ' From Daud to Dudu: Israeli rock star makes classic Iraqi songs popular again ' . Radio France … an Iraqi Revival' , Songlines, (2019). … Israeli rock musician, singer and songwriter … Muzika Mizrahit … Iraqi …
Hisqil Qassab
… in the twentieth century. He was the title of pioneer of neoclassical singing in Maqam, and he was almost one of the … biographical information See also: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Abraham Salman
… the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … in the 1920s and many of the students who showed musical talent were taught to become musicians in order to … maqam to the cosmopolitan Egyptian-styled tarab along with classical Western music repertoire arranged for qanun. He …
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 … of the third section out of four, creating a sort of “classic” curve: abca-abcd || b’bca-b”bcd || signal || …
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 … stands beside Netsky, Feldman, and Mark Slobin’s work as a classic of its discipline, further reinforcing the …
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 … ‘mainstream style’— most commonly referred to today as classical Arabic music, or, following A.J. Racy’s (2003) … construction of takasim, were replaced by ‘mainstream’ classical Arabic music elements. Jewish musicians in Iraq …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … The Mafṭirim performed Hebrew poetry set to Turkish classical music on the Sabbaths at the Italian Synagogue in … a poet and composer), Itzak Algazi, the composer/singer of classical Turkish music from Izmir, moved to Istanbul to …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino … new recording technologies. Be as it may, it is nowadays a classic of the Ladino repertoire, the inheritance of a …