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Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… scholar of music in the Islamic world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of change and acculturation in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an … and marginalized by mainstream (Western-oriented) Israeli culture. Only one Israeli institution— the Israeli Broadcast …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes of a … to Mahler, according to Tesler-Mabé, is not only a musical and personal issue. Mahler, he argues, deeply affected Unger because he musically expressed a shared German-Jewish experience of …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… from archives around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… A lengthy introduction provides ample historical and musical contexts. Karnes did not spare any effort in trying … The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … the cultural life of Jews in Latvia, with emphasis on their musical ecosystem. According to Karnes, folk songs were …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… the preservation and research of these distinctive Jewish musical repertoires. Her activities led to the … universities and colleges, developing a focus on the Jewish musical practices in the Middle East. Significantly, she was … musicology and Jewish music, and a mediator between German culture and scholarship and the nascent Israeli Jewish …
Nili Belkind
… (Routledge 2021) studies the complex relationship of musical culture to political life in Palestine-Israel. In the …
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 … world during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. In musical terms, the Nahda is associated with the emergence of … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… modestly titled “Unsere erste Musikbeilage” (“Our first musical supplement”) in Israelitischer Lehrer und Kantor , … can be reduced to a common source, Birnbaum proposed that musical diversity is the natural state of Jewish culture. Lidarti’s setting was a case exemplifying this …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… in sections according to the different Turkish makam s (musical modes), titled Shirei Israel be-eretz ha-qedem … Gözlem Gazetcilik Basin ve Yayin, Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, 2009. (Book, 5 CDs and DVD) The … we find that all variants share a common structure of four musical phrases of relatively equal length, with similar …
Moshe Attias
… was, above all, a “hidden treasure” within the Israeli musical scene. Unlike most of his contemporary Moroccan … Its content is varied in terms of textual genres and musical styles. Yet, one feature remained constant, and it … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in …