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The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… methods were still applied to the cross-cultural study of music by immigrant scholars relocated in the new … such as folk music research, Cantus-Planus-research, or the study of music in Antiquity. Overall, Gerson-Kiwi's numerous … that corresponds to her reorientation towards the study of Jewish music. These transformations were …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… space. Karnes maintains that this volume “enables us to study, perform, and hear again some of the songs and dances … issues were apparently of concern for Latvians as well. Studying the previously mentioned Vītols collection of … Melngailis Jewish collection provides few novelties to the study of Yiddish and Hebrew folk songs. While Karnes argues …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… conductors. This naturally defeats the purpose of studying Unger’s life since it glosses over some of the …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to study the music of first-generation Jewish immigrants from … the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of change and acculturation in musical … and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish musicians had for …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… as a gateway to scholarly achievement. Similarly, Rubin’s study relies heavily on minute musical detail—including … a network of annual conventions such as KlezKamp. Rubin’s study represents a kind of bookend to these activities, … Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras as the basis of his study. Continuing his broad discussion—perhaps because of …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… jazz story, which Hersch tries admirably to untangle in his study. Nevertheless, by utilizing the normative racial …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… their rich musical lore. It has truly been an honor to study the life and vast repertoire of this remarkable … of her recorded collections, are included in my forthcoming study. …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… mention a pivotal figure in the curating, cataloguing and study of the Kyiv collection. Introduced as “Mme. Mila …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… concepts in studies of Ashkenazi liturgical music, this study will also challenge the binary construct of Western … of this project is thus patent. We propose to avoid studying Jewish liturgical music from a discrete … from its status as a curiosity of European music. Also studying this musical culture against the backdrop of more …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… somewhat crude) disciplinary lexicon of the times as a study of “the dynamics of assimilation and cultural … of Ethiopian Jews into hegemonic Jewish Israeliness. Studying secular musical traditions that Beta Israel had … musical practices. In many ways these go hand in hand; my study was undertaken before Ethiopian superstars Teddy Afro …