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German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… through the language of music, of new evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural … mutual compliments, etc.). They promoted new aesthetic ideals of ritual through the publication and distribution of … goal of tracing the historical unfolding of new aesthetic ideals and systems of social representation in Ashkenazi …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, he embraces the idea that canonical figures can define a musical style, and that a ready community will receive and debate his ideas with a deep sense of mission. Beyond Rubin’s larger … taking the reader through his intricate system of ideas with methodical precision. Yet especially in the first …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… book, we can better see some of the problematic racial ideas that have distorted both the histories of jazz and of …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… stations, LPs and more). Its development was entwined with ideas and processes of modernization. Warkov focused … in Iraq had always been agents of change, exchanging ideas with visiting Egyptian and Iranian musicians and introducing these ideas into local repertoires, but they were all fluently …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… Press, 2020. Biographical narratives are often based on the idea of historical influence: they aim at demonstrating how … and a generalized historical context is replaced by the idea of historical embodiment; the historical subject, in … inclusion or exclusion from Jewishness and embrace the idea that “all spaces represented different yet still equal …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… in the southerly reaches of the world” (p. xxvii). This idea is of course a critique of the theory of the … scale as legitimate. Saminski’s position intersected with ideas propagated by musicians in the Jewish community of … recordings, can be incorporated into such a project. Ideally, this should be a flexible format, one that can …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… narrative highlighting the development of her academic ideas and methodological procedures. Gerson-Kiwi's … pivotal insights regarding the development of critical ideas in musicology and ethnomusicology. One of the main … in Western Asia brought. This transfer and exchange of ideas includes the transformation of knowledge inherited …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… proponents of ANT argue, requires us to extend the idea of agents beyond humans and account for the role that … sound, voice, instruments, devices, notation, venues, ideas, discourses, etc. As Georgina Born and Andrew Barry … processes through which society marks them. [8] The general idea is that a meaningful relationship exists between people …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… overwhelming majority of poems clearly indicates that the ideal form for an ‘Akedah piyyut was the monorhymed … the corpus of ‘Akedah piyyutim once again reinforces the idea that in Ashkenazi Jewish consciousness the Binding of … these tunes are capable of calling forth in our days the ideas and sentiments they are supposed to express, since so …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… arguments or proofs. Unlike theology or philosophy, whose ideas may be 'in the air' of a period forming part of the … rhythms and forms that correspond to such intangible ideas are not 'in the air;' if anything, they are perhaps …