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Moshe Attias
… Elmaghribi, who enjoyed both international recognition and popularity among the various communities in Israel, Mwijo … ethos of the Zionist movement and the Israeli culture that emerged from it. Even when he recorded in … “Hazarti Elaikh” (I Returned to You), or the immensely popular “ Zeh Lo Halom ” (It Is Not a Dream, recorded by …
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 … land [stomp], forced us out of our homes [stomp], but our culture is something they cannot steal. When we stamp our …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… The introduction offers English readers a survey of Jewish culture in Latvia, where several languages (Latvian, … (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 …
La Galana: A Very Old-New Sephardic Song
… around the world offer unique vistas on past musical cultures. These findings show the extent to which … 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 …
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 of a … part of an agenda to validate Canadian and Jewish-Canadian culture by placing it in an international arena in which he …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… events and as a means of introducing tourists to Ethiopian culture. Traditional Ethiopian musical instruments including … national reincarnation, sparked both media interest and the popular imagination. … But the community underwent (and … which was focused on the Jewish aspects of the community’s culture, or alternatively, had sought to achieve public …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… century, becoming an emblematic signifier of modern Israeli culture. As Mazor has shown in his groundbreaking study, … thinking (expressed mostly in chordal melodic motifs) and popular urban rhythmic patterns to the Hassidic repertoire …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… al-Sheikh (1900-1970). However, it belongs to a genre of popular songs that draw heavily from folk styles from the … in Israel. The song was made famous by its recording by the popular singer Yehoram Gaon, whose family is of Eastern … resistance to centripetal forces affecting the religious culture of the Jews from Islamic countries in Israel. …
Dudu Tassa
… Daud to Dudu: Israeli rock star makes classic Iraqi songs popular again ' . Radio France Internationale, (2019). …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… / فوق النخل) “Fog al-Nakhal,” is nowadays one of the most popular songs in the Middle East. It is a muwwashshah, … history, one can see how “Fog al-Nakhal” was canonized as a popular Arab song through the disbursement of commercial … 2017. Date Accessed: 10 April 2022. https://www.thejc.com/culture/music/composer-brian-elias-music-1.436356 [6] …