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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong

… of “Fog al-Nakhal,” explored below. Manasseh conducted field recordings of Jewish immigrants from Baghdad to … from Baghdad as a young man in 1932. She also received a field recording of the mother of classical composer Brian …

Ibn Danan Synagogue Fes Shutterstock photo

A Moroccan Synagogue Service

… research. Although liturgical issues emerged during early fieldwork among Moroccan Jews in Israel, it was always a … rooted in the mother community in Morocco. My long-term fieldwork experience in Moroccan synagogues shows that this …

Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… and music. Ethnomusicology was not yet available as a field of specialization for an undergraduate, but the … Israel community in Israel. In 1989, when I arrived in “the field,” over 20,000 Beta Israel had immigrated to Israel, … discussed, although they were constantly present in the field, including the ongoing negotiations it took to secure …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… and Eastern Ashkenaz that has been criticized in other fields of Jewish studies. The German model spread well …

Samy’s Boys in Concert in the early 1950s (Courtesy of Yolande Amzallag, Foundation Samy Elmaghribi)

Music, Muslims and Jews

… become the subject of growing interest in diverse scholarly fields. The JMRC has addressed this subject selectively in …

Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

… 1970s. Beginning with an archive of 78 rpm recordings, the field gained depth as musicians conducted oral histories, … because of the status of recordings as the field’s core primary resource—he offers background on the … (137), and connecting with similar approaches from the field of ethnomusicology (especially Jeff Todd Titon’s work …