The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today: A special issue of the journal Musical Performance

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Amnon Shiloah
Routledge, Jan 8, 2016 - Music - 98 pages
Israel, with its highly heterogeneous immigrant society, offers to the observer a fascinating instance of multifaceted performance practice. Within a relatively limited area, there are numerous musical traditions and styles which encompass sacred and secular, old and new, folk and sophisticated forms. The ten contributions included in these issues of Musical Performance represent a discussion of the most significant traditions that were established during the period before 1948: the search for the establishment of a new and typically Israeli art and folk music; the attitude of the protagonists of this tendency toward the old exiled traditional heritage of the Jewish people, and the struggle of the immigrants after the creation of the State of Israel to ensure the survival of their musical tradtions as well as to cope with the new physical and cultural environment. Altogether the general scope of these contributions correspond to a large extent to major events which marked the m

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Contents

Introduction
1
Performers between East and West Ideology and Reality in the Yishuv
5
Ḥavurot Hazemer in Israel A Unique Sociomusicological Phenomenon
15
The Performance of Arab Music in Israel
35
Ashkenazi Liturgical Music in Israel Today
51
Music and Cantillation in the Sephardi Synagogue
65
Notes on Pronunciation
81
Glossaries
83
Notes on Contributors
91
Index
93

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