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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… music and dance troupe . Also named Meseret , the troupe played in local community events in a variety of lineups, … (flute) and kebero (barrel drums) were prominently displayed at the center. … I was then an undergraduate student … by Jewish Ethiopian lay musicians in Israel, for whom playing had previously been more a means of self-expression, …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… space but also as a location for the symbolic public display, through the language of music, of new evolving … of this project will consist of a digital map displaying intersections of time and place in Ashkenazi …

Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv

… access to the Kyiv collections. The JMRC will continue to play a role in the integration of the Kyiv collection within …

Alicia Benassayag Bendayan

… songs of the North Moroccan Sephardic community, playing a substantial role in the documentation of this … her life and repertoire. At the age of 98 years, she displayed a bright intelligence and clarity of mind, qualities … to perform even long ballads entirely from memory, displaying an unusual degree of consistency between …

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

… came about through a generational overlap between aging players and enthusiastic young musicians starting around the …

Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity

… race assumptions at work, both as they exclude Shaw from playing authentic jazz, and Smith from being an authentic … be clarified as well. Racial assumptions about who gets to play jazz “authentically” muddies the history of jazz … considered founders of American jazz, are not permitted to play jazz music as themselves, but are required to forgo …