… / 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 … of the expression and the equal prevalence of the popular song are often linked. On the other hand, “I have a …

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… to prefer Israeli music of almost any sort, mostly light popular, to the recordings of Sephardic songs which …

… dance and tune genres of the American-Jewish repertoire, popular in parts of Eastern Europe in the late 19th and … ‘Bulgarian dance,’ referring to the large Bulgarian population in Bessarabia. Its best known step is similar to … Bulgar, Pas d’Espagne , Vingerka , Waltz , forms of popular Russian, Polish, and Rumanian dances.” EncyJud 1971, …

… Gadya (Aramaic: One only kid [young goat]), one of the most popular songs sung at the Passover seder in some of its … she is one of the most prolific and successful Israeli popular musicians having released more than fifty albums. … take on H ad Gadya H ad Gadya continues to be a beloved popular song in Israel, periodically inspiring new versions …

Reprinted in Los romances de America (Buenos Aires, 1948), 101–83.

… how astute Oysher was in mingling Hassidic chant with the popular scat-singing craze of the day.” 1 The second section … .  This song, with its nods through the medium of American popular music to both the Hasidic niggun and the Eastern … between the cantorial world of the synagogue and the popular music stage. Oysher’s career has to be understood …

… the former danced by young girls holding hands,...The popular Russian dances are, properly speaking, of Cossack …