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El Shokhen Shamayim - A Recorded Pearl of Andalusian Hebrew Music from Algeria Recovered
… will offer extended audio from his collection in a future redesign. Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy this preview. The … in Paris (K-4195), is one of the many products of multiple cross-cultural interactions characteristic of modern North … (Istanbul, 1921), the ultimate printed collection of sacred Hebrew poetry set to Ottoman art music. All these and …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… with “Fog al-Nakhal” was sung to the text of al-Musili’s sacred hymn, 'Fog al 'arsh fog, mi'raj abu Ibrahim” (Upon the … not more. The fame of Ghazali’s version in Syria was fostered by television broadcasts and recordings, especially … sense of belonging. The song marks a shared space that cut across national frontiers and political tensions. It would be …
Armand Sabah
… and the extensive collection of records his father acquired. From a young age, Sabah was exposed to various genres … rejected, considering Moroccan music primitive compared to the electric guitar. However, after some persuasion, … the ensemble, Sabah aimed to promote Moroccan music across diverse audiences in Israel, performing extensively at …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… it is generated by the structures and contents of sacred texts whose ceremonial performance and clear-cut … creates a sonic tapestry that moves between fast non-metered mumbling on a single recitation tone to clear-cut florid … included in his compendium to liturgical texts. This rich cross-reference between liturgy and the paraliturgical …
Beregovski Collection - Nign no. 3
… project and will be updated as new information is gathered. It is part of the JMRC project of publishing a critical … of 1946 (see above), was published several times. It appeared in print for the first time in Beregovski’s Evreiskiie … with which nigunim are rapidly transmitted and transformed across time and space by different agents. It also shows that …
Ethiopian Jews in Israel - a Musical Ethnography
… bobbins or brought homemade baskets and pottery to be fired at the kiln and put up for sale, and a traditional music … events, such as the Safed Music Festival and the Red Sea Jazz festival. The kindergarten’s yard sported a … musics and identities of Ethiopian Jews in Israel across three decades. Compared with these works my thesis …
German Jewish Sacred Musical Intersections
… evolving aesthetic ideals, of Jewish public emotions, of cross-cultural intersections between Jews with the … elements. First, a modern conceptualization of an endangered “heritage” of solo cantorial music (at times framed … of this heritage from foreign accretions that have obscured its pristine primordial forms. Second, the enrichment of …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… engaged in collective documentation projects, prepared historically informed and creative performances, and … nearly every note recorded by people who have become revered as masters of instrumental klezmer music in the 1920s, … as a common mode of expression with its own variations across Jewish communities, limiting his analysis to melodic …
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… people of Judah. So who in this situation should be considered a Jew? Whose music should be considered a “Jewish” contribution to jazz? Either, both, or … This part also includes those African-American artists who crossed over the identity line in the other direction, …
Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited
… in musical practice, and the Iraqi musicians provided an incredibly rich case study to investigate. In Baghdad, Jewish … had not only traversed cultural worlds, but had also suffered a deep loss of status. Having been prominent, commercial … Andalusian Orchestra and other Jewish and Arab ensembles across the country, as well as various ensembles dedicated to …