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Inventing Jewish Music
… communities was in a state of chaos. In the cities, acculturation was moving ahead full throttle; in the villages …
Salamone Rossi as a Composer of "Hebrew" Music
… the collection as much a literary, historical, and sociocultural document as a musical one. … 9485 … Salamone Rossi …
The Training of Hazzanim in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… (Nineteenth) Century … 19th century jewish history … Jewish Culture Germany … Hazzanut … Hazzanim - Cantors … Cantorial …
Unintentional History: Musical Moments in 1930s Yiddish Films
… the short flowering of a vital, transatlantic Jewish cinema culture. Harsh economic and political realities combined … sporadic sounds. I’ll concentrate on two types of condensed cultural statement: images of people praying and fiddling. … …
Sounds from the Divine: Religious Musical Instruments in the Ancient Near East
… part of religious acts in most, if not all, known cultures of the ancient as well as the modern world. Musical …
The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia
… use of the resonator also as a drum, but rather due to the cultic environment and circumstances in which the … … Music history … The Balaĝ Instrument and its Role in the Cult of Ancient Mesopotamia … Uri Gabbay …
The Ala-Instrument: its Identification and Role
… an attempt will be made to examine the instrument in its cultic role. My methodology is philological, iconographic … in contemporary Iraq; thus comparisons with other musical cultures from around the world must be made. In making …
Musical Practices and Instruments in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria)
… and the Amorite kingdoms of Syria and Palestine. Cultural associations with the eastern Mediterranean world … period and across such a large geographic space, while difficult to resist, is open to frustration. … 23464 … Bronze Age …
Nudity and Music in Anatolian Mythological Seduction Scenes and Iconographic Imagery
… as a means of enhancing erotic seduction. A number of cultic, sexual iconographic representations associated with …
Greek Epic and Kypriaka: Why “Cyprus Matters”
… has stressed the rapid “hybridity” of Cypriot material culture in the Iron Age; immigrants included Minoan and … be underestimated (Sherratt 1992; Knapp 2008). Mycenaean cultural features did however endure and evolve within this … Amathus, apparently the island’s stronghold of Eteocypriot culture, bore Greek names (Gjerstad 1948: 430, 475 n. 5). … …