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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… , Charles Hersch has written an informative and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become … complicated subject. Indeed, nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, … of Jewry. Virtually the same problem also plagues the history of jazz. Defining racial conceits also skew jazz …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… who maintained a living connection to the tradition. History, however, proved her wrong. Starting in the 1990s, …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… November 25, 2020. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-the-melody-lingers-on-irving-berlin/ Hamm, …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… aim at demonstrating how individuals altered the course of history (“made history”) and how they were affected by it. Yet the concept … miller — Tesler-Mabé sets out to write a “ contextual history ” [sic.] in which a “single historical subject can …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… life work. The survey also includes a brief general history of folk song ethnography in Eastern Europe, and of … with different melodies): The text of this song has a long history and many variants. For a detailed study, see Hazan … [1999] 2003. Echoes of Yesteryear: Reminiscences of Jewish History in the Making: Eretz Yisrael from 1934 to 2000 …
Bore ‘ad ana – A Dirge for the Ninth of Av and its Geographical Distribution
… piyyut ,' [In Hebrew], Exile and diaspora: studies in the history of the Jewish people presented to Professor Haim …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… interfacing between multiple musical disciplines, history, comparative musicology and Jewish music, and a … ethnographic research in order to construct an oral history of Edith Gerson-Kiwi. This component of the project … from the estate will allow for a much wider and revealing history of the development of ethnomusicology in the Middle …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… this date was associated with other catastrophes in Jewish history. In spite of its prominence in Jewish historical …
Clara Wenz
… (CAAS), 9th Symposium, Paris, France, 19-20 Oct 2018. “History on Rewind: Traveling with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon …
Stefanie Mockert
… perspective inspired by philosophical aesthetics, social history, and critical theory. Mockert has been involved in …