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Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… collectivity in its contemporary national reincarnation, sparked both media interest and the popular imagination. … … how it is applied in a new environment in which they are marked by skin color and discrepant practices of Judaism; …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… Jews with the surrounding Christian society, and of marking of communal and regional distinctions. The focus is …
Music, Muslims and Jews
… in 1948, opened a new era. In this new historical chapter marked by physical separation, the millenary Judeo-Muslim …
Alicia Benassayag Bendayan
… an honor to study the life and vast repertoire of this remarkable individual. More details regarding Alicia’s …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… and suggests stylistic periods that emerged as a result of marketing, technological innovation, changing repertoire, and … defining musical style, stands beside Netsky, Feldman, and Mark Slobin’s work as a classic of its discipline, further …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… racial one , Smith seems to have been the Jew in this remarkable conversation, and Shaw perhaps only marginally so. …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… In 1979 Esther Warkov , a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, … Jewish immigrants from Iraq. From 1979 to 1981 Warkov worked under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shiloah of … world and of the Jewish musical traditions within it. Warkov wanted to study processes of change and acculturation …
Purim Lanu, Pesah a la Mano: Celebrating Flory Jagoda (1923-2021)
… humble Song of the Month celebrates the memory of this remarkable Sarajevo-born Sephardic-American artist. Jagoda, … slightly later in her life, became one of the most remarkable folk performers of traditional Sephardic songs … song as “traditional among the Jews of Turkey. ' From the marketing strategy of the song by Zaragoza, rereleased in …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… like Berlin could also prosper. Berlin’s two great marketing coups in organizing army shows in the two world …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… aspirations of a German-Jewish conductor with the music market of post-World War II and the north-American cultural … must rise above comparisons with conductors who left their mark on the international stage and situate Unger at the …