The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today: A special issue of the journal Musical PerformanceAmnon Shiloah 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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... community events . Nevertheless , transformations occurred , even in the highly functional music of the synagogue whose first aim has been to enhance prayer , avoiding as much as possible conscious artistry . Thus , one can witness not ...
... community events . Nevertheless , transformations occurred , even in the highly functional music of the synagogue whose first aim has been to enhance prayer , avoiding as much as possible conscious artistry . Thus , one can witness not ...
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... Jewish community of Palestine before the foundation of Israel provides a rare opportunity for the study of the emergence of musical life in a highly heterogeneous immigrant society from its inception . Music served both as a powerful ...
... Jewish community of Palestine before the foundation of Israel provides a rare opportunity for the study of the emergence of musical life in a highly heterogeneous immigrant society from its inception . Music served both as a powerful ...
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... Jews from Yemen . The hardships of World War I depleted the small community and halted nearly all cultural activities , but the establishment of British rule over Palestine in 1918 encouraged an intensive renewal of Jewish immigration ...
... Jews from Yemen . The hardships of World War I depleted the small community and halted nearly all cultural activities , but the establishment of British rule over Palestine in 1918 encouraged an intensive renewal of Jewish immigration ...
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A special issue of the journal Musical Performance Amnon Shiloah. dwelling . Young Jewish ... Jews . The east - west encounter may best be illustrated by a pair of ... community , and an external audience.10 Generally speaking , Ideology and ...
A special issue of the journal Musical Performance Amnon Shiloah. dwelling . Young Jewish ... Jews . The east - west encounter may best be illustrated by a pair of ... community , and an external audience.10 Generally speaking , Ideology and ...
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... Jewish groups and the immigrants from Europe most of whom were Ashkenazi Jews . The former as a rule lived in expanded families and within their own ethnic community , around their synagogue . The latter consisted mostly of relatively ...
... Jewish groups and the immigrants from Europe most of whom were Ashkenazi Jews . The former as a rule lived in expanded families and within their own ethnic community , around their synagogue . The latter consisted mostly of relatively ...
Contents
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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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