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Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… sacred and poetic texts with melodies from pre-existing popular songs, a practice with roots in the sixteenth … only as a matter of citizenship but as a matter of popular or collective consciousness—was still a viable … of the Algerian War in France, memories of Syria’s Jewish population occupy a protected (and sensitive) walled off …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… (despite Karnes’s claim that this song is unique). It was popularized during Israel’s 1948 War as “ Hafinjan ” (“The … songs sung by Holocaust survivors. The setting of the popular American melody and Hebrew verse was therefore not a … #1163 ). [11] See the notes at http://a-pesni.org/popular20/kazkolyb.htm . The Cossack lullaby has also a …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… old recordings show, among many other matters, that widely popular songs from the turn of the 20th century are absent … from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912) , is one of the many popular Sephardi songs that have not entered the canon of … since the mid-20th century. The song was apparently very popular at the time it was recorded commercially in Istanbul …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… The Cheese and the Worms (1980 [1976]) — which explores popular culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the eyes …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… 25 … Back in 2008 we dedicated our Song of the Month to the popular piyyut “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu” (“Purim, Purim, … and their salvation by Esther and Mordecai, stressing the popular joy traditionally expressed on Purim for this … to the point that its first verse also generated a popular adage, “Purim, Purim, Purim lanu, Pesah a la mano,” …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… are retiring (Rubin just announced his), and diverse new populations are reinventing the parameters and dynamics of …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… bandleaders, including Benny Goodman, who had the most popular band in America throughout the 1930s (and who also …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… a Nazareth Illit (today Nof HaGalil) neighborhood largely populated by new immigrants from Ethiopia, and working as a … national reincarnation, sparked both media interest and the popular imagination. … But the community underwent (and …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… thinking (expressed mostly in chordal melodic motifs) and popular urban rhythmic patterns to the Hassidic repertoire …