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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 …
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 …
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 …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
… glad to launch the sixth volume in the Contemporary Jewish Music series, 13 Jewish Folk Tunes, an online … Central European modernism embedded within a Jewish multi-ethnic scene that includes liturgical, para-liturgical and … downloadable program notes on the genesis of this work, musical analysis of the composition, and an extensive …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity . New York: Routledge, 2017. In Jews and Jazz , … and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … Gershwin. In those very early years, composers wrote “ethnic” songs for ethnic stage characters to perform, …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in which the … Shared Muslim-Jewish [musical] spaces (regardless of ethnicities) have become the subject of growing interest in …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… Jewish-Ethiopian crafts (weaving, pottery, basketry) and music. The neighborhood had grown around an absorption … be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe … power, performativity, and the politics of race, class and ethnicity within the discipline. Later studies of musical …
Milo Hamamah
… Well-known singer of Iraqi music in Israel. Born in Iraqi, immigrated to Israel in 1950. Learned Iraqi music in Israel, motivated by ethnic pride. Occasionally attempted to sing the Iraqi …
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 … musical and textual adaptations catering to different ethnic groups, religions, families, and individuals sharing …
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie (1913)
… the earliest surviving specimens of Middle Eastern Jewish musical traditions. By nature of the technological … all ranks of the Hebrew people and from all the different ethnic groups [“’edot”] here, and also to collect melodies … he recorded, besides their name (usually without surnames), ethnic belonging and city of origin. Some informants were …