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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… in the Arab world during the Nahda era, Jewish musicians played an active role in the performance and perpetuation of … the famous record’s origins—both the song and its singer—I played the copy on my phone to a variety of people familiar … how this new biography is mediated by the interplay of human and non-human actors, this article brings …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… specifically bears on Unger. The assertion that Jewishness played a key role in Unger’s life in Canada is … will suffice here to focus on the role the figure of Mahler plays in Tesler-Mabé’s narrative. Mahler surely looms large … beyond the performance of Jewishness. But Mahler probably played a role in Unger’s attempt to situate himself as a …
Moshe Cordova
… Moshe Cordova Composer, singer, ‘ud and piano player Moshe Cordova (b. Edirne, Ottoman Empire, 1881 – d. … on July 17, 2015. … Composer, Singer, ‘Ud and Piano player … Ottoman Empire … Turkey … Paraliturgical … Makam … …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… of Warkov’s thesis is the prominent yet implicit role played by a group of Palestinian/Arab-Israeli musicians in …
Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes
In the framework of the JMRC project dedicated to the life and work of cellist, composer…
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 …