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The Idelsohn Project
… Is music intrinsically political? The best-known Jewish song in … musician who insisted that music and affect were inseparable from ethnic nationhood. Like his other creations, … physiognomy of Jewish Orientalism and its ties to early Arab- Jewish sociopolitical and cultural encounters in …
An Ashkenazi version of “Ehad mi yode’a” in…Arabic
… A few years ago, I heard the song ‘Ehad mi yode’a’ in the Arabic language with the same tune. The person who performed … to Israel, that the tune he knew was similar to a Judeo-Arabic version he heard from a colleague of his in the … remarks refer to the two main sharqi versions documented musically, the ones from the ancient cities of Aleppo …
El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… magnificent collection of 78 rpm recordings of Sephardic music is well-known to all those interested in this … of him from Paris mentioned that he recorded songs in Arabic, no such items have so far resurfaced. Sayag was a … in the late 1950s. Notice that Cohen adds a coda in Arabic to his recording, emphasizing the name of Allah and …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… It is a muwwashshah, “girdle” song, a traditional strophic Arabic form characterized by its refrain between the … history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … one can see how “Fog al-Nakhal” was canonized as a popular Arab song through the disbursement of commercial recordings. …
Salim Shibith (Salim Ha-Cohen)
… took the additional step of engaging a teacher of Arabic literature and poetry to augment his education at a … of the maqam , wrote Na‘im Twayna in his series on Iraqi musicians in Al-Anba’ newspaper (June 30, 1978). It is … Revisited . … Maqam performer … Vocal music … Iraq … Arabic Music Broadcast Ensemble … Israel Broadcast …
Hisqil Qassab
… after the Jews were deported from Iraq as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict, where he continued reading the Maqam … biographical information See also: Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited by Esther Warkov. …
Yitzhak Aviezer
… Former Music Director and Producer for Voice of Israel in Arabic, … musician, conductor and founder of "Kol Israel" in arabic … Composers … Kol Yisrael … Composer … Conductor … …
Abraham Salman
… Abraham Salman (born Shaharabani) was a qanun virtuoso, one of the finest players of … the Middle East. Blind from the age of two, he studied music as a child in Baghdad’s school for blind Jewish … and a favored accompanist of some of Iraqi's best-known Arab singers. Salman immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was a …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … by the singing of paraliturgical Hebrew (and at times Judeo-Arabic and Aramaic) poetry. This poetry is set to Andalusian … the congregation as a choir with the rhythmic melody of the Arab song “Ya um al-‘abaya” (يا أم العباية) that was made …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and … Jews of Antiquity found themselves living in lands where Arab and Persian cultures and languages predominated. Jews … means of communication capable of surmounting estrangement. Music and music making was an area of cultural expression in …