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Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius

… little to rag-time, it allies itself not with the European styles of first-generation immigrants, but with a home-grown style that the next generations can claim as their own. Abie … that it became itself the locus classicus of rag-time style in conventional wisdom, superseding the “true” …

Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)

… Sephardic and North African Jewish communities of the new style of religious Hebrew song, which had developed starting …

Moshe Cordova

… Turkish Jews in Israel, the predominance of Arabic music styles (Middle Eastern or Maghrebi ones) in Sephardic …

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

… tradition from Baghdad and what she termed ‘mainstream style’— most commonly referred to today as classical Arabic … orchestra were those already familiar with the mainstream style in Baghdad or accommodated (and also enjoyed) the … in mediating for her the intricacies of the ‘mainstream style', and at times, also the Iraqi maqam tradition and the …

Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century

… musical detail—including intricate discussions of form and style—to provide insight into a historical era. And like … the idea that canonical figures can define a musical style, and that a ready community will receive and debate … systems, and beyond his efforts to identify a “style” from these recordings, then, the book is an exercise …

German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections

… cantor, and continued by Eduard Birnbaum in a Sulzerian style. Moreover, the German model was not only found in … of musicians, musical traditions, repertories, genres, and styles that were prevalent in the regions explored, but to … genres, modes, traditional vs. “progressive” musical styles, liturgical vs. paraliturgical elements etc. …

Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography

… “blackness” as primary identity (alongside a delinquent lifestyle) over marginalized Israeliness. Ratner explains the … Via several case studies showcasing the different musical styles that Ethiopian-Israelis create and work … separately or in combination—she highlights how musical style is key to understanding practices of citizenship and …