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Edith Gerson-Kiwi in Tehran (1961): Documents from a Revealing Journey
… transition from comparative musicology to anthropologically oriented American ethnomusicology in the 1960s. Looking back … to what she perceived as the most ancient strata of “Oriental music.” By positioning Iran as the pivot of the … music as a center whose modal chant spread eastwards via Oriental Christian liturgies. Put differently, by adopting a …
A Fine Reciprocity
… who see the past as behind us, and who imagine ourselves as oriented toward the future, which lies before or ahead of … happened; this is what can be known and this is how we orient ourselves. The future is what we cannot see; it is in …
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Exhibition
… Wiens and Eric de Visscher show how museum soundscapes orient time and affect; Jonathan Sterne and Zoë De Luca … that I have categorized as follows: (1) contextual orientation; (2) refracted immersion; (3) memorial … both the gallery and its mediated echoes. 1. Contextual Orientation The exhibition begins with a short film that …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… 11, 1936, in the framework of his documentation of “Oriental” Jewish traditions. This is one of several … heavy nasal voice, Cohen Melamed attempts to preserve the “Oriental” flavor of melody, though the maqam Hijaz is … And how did it turn into an extremely popular Israeli “Oriental” hit? Moreover, in a most unexpected turn of …
Colonial Misunderstanding of an Efficient Peasant Institution
… 1921–47." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 46 no.3 (2003): 320–54. … 0 … 3 … 13 … 3 … Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient … 42524 … 320–54 … Land Settlement and Mushāʿ Tenure …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… and settled in Jerusalem. There he founded the Archive for Oriental Music at the Hebrew University. Edith Gerson-Kiwi … as his assistant between 1936 and 1939. This association reoriented her research focus from the canon of Western art … knowledge inherited from Europe, such as the image of the Orient or the transformation of epistemes over time. Such a …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… be-eretz ha-qedem (Songs of Israel in the Land of the Orient; SHIBA ), published in 1921 by bookseller Benjamin …
A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… Islam, and Judaism helped to discover the living Orient with its many Afro-Asiatic communities and ethnic …
Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern
… of scholars on reading the earlier evidence about orientalia through the lens of fifth-century anti-Persian … Athenian polis evolved from aristocratic to democratic; the Orient, contrasted with the isonomic Spartan model, was … … De Simone, Mariella. "Aristophanes’ Phrynichos and the Orientalizing Musical Pattern." Yuval - Studies of the …
Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition
… Edith (Esther). "Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition." Yuval - Studies of the Jewish … Monophony … Jewish … Vocal Folk-Polyphonies of the Western Orient in Jewish Tradition … Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi … …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… settlements in Palestine established with an overt Zionist orientation that reached Imber while still in Rumania in … Hypotheses In the fourth volume (1923) of his Hebräisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz ( HOM , Berlin, Jerusalem, … Vienna, 10 vols., 1914-1932) dedicated to the music of the “Oriental Sephardic” Jews, the distinguished musicologist …
Atah Ehad
… Edwin Seroussi, ' A Common Basis — The Discovery of the Orient and the Uniformity of Jewish Musical Traditions in … the Teaching of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn, Peamim: Studies in Oriental Jewry 100, (2004), pp. 125-146 (In Hebrew). [3] …


