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Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … 1932. She also received a field recording of the mother of classical composer Brian Elias, who moved to Bombay in 1926 … Tassa and the Kuwaity’s: A Search for Belonging Popular Israeli musician Dudu Tassa is the grandson of Daoud …
Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur
… Childhood and early musical career Yossef (Yusuf) Zaarur (يوسف زعرور) was born in Baghdad in either 1902 or 1896—per Israeli immigration documents—to a family of ten children. … his career in Israel, Zaarur also met with renowned Western classical musicians, among them Leonard Bernstein and Yehudi …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … (2015), who focuses on the “contemplative” nigunim of the Israeli Habad Hasidim, and combines musicological … style is irrelevant. Unlike composers of nineteenth-century classical music, the creators and performers of Hasidic …