(176 results found)
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… seaboard. With me, I carry a treasure, a piece of lost musical history, or so I believe. Saved on my mobile phone … sang in Arabic and recordings of them performing Jewish religious hymns in Hebrew are rare. In that regard, the … facilitating musical exchange was the migratory paths of religious students and pilgrims: Egyptian Sheikha Sakina …
The Fall of Jerusalem in Song: The Ashkenazi Melody She’eh ne’esar
… Hebrew Hymn Melodies : The Rise and development of a Musical Tradition (Tel Aviv, 1970), Hanoch Avenary set a new bar in the musicological study of the piyyut . His insights on a … and stable hazaj . The scholarly edition of Ibn Gabirol’s religious poetry ( Shirei qodesh le-rabbi Shlomo ibn …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Berlin to Jerusalem and Back - The Letters of German-Jewish Musicologist Edith Gerson Kiwi (1908-1992),” is a joint … music to non-Western music, most particularly, the music of religious and ethnic communities in British Palestine. In … and analysis of the liturgical, para-liturgical and non-religious music of the non-European Jewish communities whose …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… of Jewishness as a lived experience that entails a flux of religious, national, and cultural configurations. But … in Unger’s history: Unger decided to “devote his life to music making” after hearing Mahler’s Lied von der Erde ; he … concerts whose programs revolved mainly around Mahler’s music to the repeated efforts to perform Mahler in Canada. …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… early years by Ian Whitcomb (1987), still one of the most musically literate surveys, and a journalistic rehash of the … and ‘coon’, the demeaning white take on assumed black music tastes) on which all of Berlin’s early works centred. … friends, throughout his career, were also ethnic (if not religious) Jews. A book in such a series might be reasonably …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting in the … patterns animate its language, poetical structure and musical setting, as seen below. Purim, Purim Lanu (Ladino …
Moshe Cordova
… m . Cordova was born in Edirne, an important Ottoman Jewish musical hub since the late 17 th century. Our knowledge … editor of the important collection of Ottoman piyyutim (religious poems), Shirei Israel be-Eretz Haqedem “Songs of … music declined for diverse reasons. The general drop in religious observance and synagogue attendance among Turkish …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… and penetrating history of Jews in American jazz music, which should become a first stop for those wishing to … nearly everything about the history of Jews and jazz music is difficult to categorize, analyze, or even begin to … on the other hand, spoke forcefully about his own Jewish religious faith and practices, including his own bar mitzvah …
Arabs - Jews - Music
… history, with the rise of the modern national/ethno-religious conflicts in the Middle East that followed the fall of the Ottoman Empire and European colonialism. Music and music making was one area of cultural expression in which …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… aims to map, analyze and make German Jewish liturgical music ( minhag Ashkenaz ) accessible to the scholarly … last social processes blurred the distinction between the religious and non-religious spheres of Jewish music-making since late 19 th …