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Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
… with the problematic — yet normative — category of race. Straight away, one sees that the only means of … themes, as though Smith had not been a Jew. If not for his race, would Smith’s Jewish authenticity have been dismissed? … or other Jews of color, but with an analysis that utilizes race as a defining factor in determining the members of …
Book review: Hernan Tesler-Mabé, Mahler’s Forgotten Conductor
… categorical inclusion or exclusion from Jewishness and embrace the idea that “all spaces represented different yet …
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
… Jewish music tradition. Moreover, Karnes’s argument that “traces of the region’s Jewish folk music surfaced in …
The Edith Gerson-Kiwi Legacy
… Indeed, the field of Comparative Musicology left its traces in different post-war sub-disciplines of musicology … and wide-ranging private and professional networks, trace the development of critical ideas that transcend …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… object (an assemblage) on the basis of which to trace the conditions, trajectories and forces that converge … of any dawr performance (Racy 2003, 97-98). Scene I. Traces of Movement, A Hebrew Dawr The overall structure of “ … of musical aesthetics, an historical account that traces this influence remains to be written. [18] What is …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… that cantor Sarfaty preserved in his compendium traces of this old piece. Rabbi da Fonseca’s poem ends with a …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… high F’ leap to the octave, which creates a yodel-like grace note. It is quite significant that even the … one that is sung by the entire congregation. We could not trace Western Ashkenazi musical transcriptions for this, but …
The Treatise on Music Translated into Hebrew by Juda ben Isaac (Paris B.N. Héb. 1037, 22v-27v)
… by Juda ben Isaac but a later version, in which we find traces of alterations, omissions and additions by …
Musical Tradition and its Transmitters between Synagogue and Church
… not possess any musical notation. It will be our task to trace, and if possible to identify the persons or groups of …
Music in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah in Northern Africa
… and Luria did not belong to any group - this book embraces a looser ideological approach. Lavi did not attempt …