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32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… “competition song” ( vāśippāṭṭtu ), in which two singers or groups of singers perform alternate stanzas (Zacharia … calling for “increase” or prosperity in the context of agricultural celebrations and varied Hindu religious rituals in … during a party on the day after the wedding for non-Jewish friends and neighbors of the wedding party and …
31. The Bridegroom Dressed in Gold
… that by his side? Nalla! Traditionally performed at a Jewish women's party the night before a wedding (Daniel and … Kerala. They present verbal reminders of neighboring cultural groups—first in the mention of a Hindu god of love and then …
Yaakov Huri
… as rabbi. Huri belonged to the Zionist sector of the Jewish community. This sector, unlike the yeshivah students … was the Minhat Yehuda Synagogue, a spiritual and cultural center of the “Babylonian” (“bavlim” is how Iraqi … as cantor not only by Babylonian Jews, but by other ethnic groups in Jerusalem, Greeks, Persians, Kurds and more. For …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… distancing of post- Holocaust congregations from the cultural contexts in which Hasidic music originally emerged. … constant migrations, along with marriages between the two groups, generated an awareness of the stylistic differences, … as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is …
Enrico Fink
… and coordinators of the Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music, international project devoted to the study of … he has devoted himself to new interpretations of the Jewish cultural tradition, finding a path between "radical" and … to contemporary, participating in and leading major groups and orchestras, but also giving classes, workshops, …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… 1930s, appeared in 1935. The English one was published in Jewish Music Journal 2, no. 2 (1935): 8-11. The Hebrew one … they are renegades or assimilants, and detest all Jewish cultural values. 4) The few composers who remained within … all of the synagogue music from each of the exisitng ethnic groups, for instance, the Yemenites, Babylonians, Persians, …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… number of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some … and textual adaptations catering to different ethnic groups, religions, families, and individuals sharing a … Tassa … Piyyut … Baghdadi … Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong … …
The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a Synopsis of their Musical Styles
… On the whole, Kurdistan is known as a territory of cultural regression where residues of archaic languages and, … in that it is to a considerable extent connected with Jewish history of the biblical period. … 9480 … Kurdistan … … … Kurds … Culture … Musical traditions … Jewish cultural groups … Musical styles … The Music of Kurdistan Jews - a …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… library at the New York campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, was “Six Songs from the Jewish … at them as relics of an embryonic period in Jewish/Zionist cultural development. Binder’s project is as much about … be found in other folk song' (1932: XXIX). Furthermore, he groups this melody with a number of songs that are 'fused of …
Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… of 'play song” or singing game commonly performed among the Jewish communities of central and southern Yemen. It is sung … among the Yemenite communities of Israel, even though its cultural context and the functions that it upheld have … include quarter notes, pairs of eighth notes and pairs or groups of four sixteenth notes. The text-music relation in …