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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 first-generation Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From … and to increasing international interest in ‘world’ or ‘ethnic’ musics, classical Arabic music gained acceptance …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … is certainly competent for its sort of standard ethnic comedy number, and Berlin’s reedy voice is … Abie by realizing that the future was not in these ethnic ditties but in the production of inclusively American …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… a forgotten source from the collection of the Latvian musician Emilis Melngailis (1874–1954), a devoted collector … A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … Analogous representations of unlikely crossover ethnic encounters are found elsewhere as well: There are …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… (1908-1992) is considered one of the founders of Israeli musicology. She studied piano and musicology in Berlin, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg i. Br. … music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In the footsteps of …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … (“Eastern Music”), obscures the long participation of ethnic minorities in local and regional music traditions or … records that Baidaphon released, one gets a sense of the ethnic diversity at stake here; besides music performed in …
Moshe Attias
… The Jewish Music Research Centre announces with sadness the recent … politics and the complex relationship between religion, ethnicity and political affiliation. Cheikh Mwijo related to … immigrant women was but one topic related to this charged ethnic and cultural encounter from the 1990s, generated …
A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… of the twentieth century, the study and research of Jewish music was motivated by the belief that the music of biblical times survived in the living traditions of … Orient with its many Afro-Asiatic communities and ethnic groups. … 20th (Twentieth) Century … 9480 … Abraham …
A.Z. Idelsohn and the Study of the Traditional Pronunciations of Hebrew (Hebrew)
… well-known for his pioneering work in the field of Hebrew musicology, primarily for his recording and research of the music of the various Jewish ethnic groups, presented to the scholarly world in his … from the influence on Hebrew of the vernaculars of the ethnic groups. Taking into consideration the paucity at that …
Aspects of Music Culture in the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods: Sepphoris as a Case Study
… years of Hellenistic culture, manifested in language, art, music, cult and thought. Yet, despite and alongside the … time offers an opportunity to examine the development of music culture in a region that was inhabited by people of … artifacts found, this paper examines aspects of religious/ethnic identity of the multifaceted population, using …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… of the opening stanza, is the refrain (the same words and music are repeated) and x, the last line of the rest of the … to post-modern ears. Categories of authentic and ethnic musical purity (such as “universality” of … rabbinical figure whose authority transcended the internal ethnic divisions between Jews from the different lands of …