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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... Sephardi Synagogue Ezra Barnea 65 Notes on Pronunciation Glossaries Notes on Contributors Index 81 83 91 93 A CD with examples of Arab Music , played by the Arab Music Orchestra in Israel , Yiddish song , Klezmer , and Judeo - Spanish ...
... Sephardi Synagogue Ezra Barnea 65 Notes on Pronunciation Glossaries Notes on Contributors Index 81 83 91 93 A CD with examples of Arab Music , played by the Arab Music Orchestra in Israel , Yiddish song , Klezmer , and Judeo - Spanish ...
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... Jewish musicians worked side by side . The Jewish musicians who came from such Arab countries as Iraq , Egypt and ... Sephardi cantorial music . In part 2 of The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today the two prestigious ...
... Jewish musicians worked side by side . The Jewish musicians who came from such Arab countries as Iraq , Egypt and ... Sephardi cantorial music . In part 2 of The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today the two prestigious ...
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... Jews in Palestine , most of them of the Sephardi community . By 1914 their numbers had increased by tenfold to 80,000 , and the number of Ashkenazi Jews slightly exceeded that of the Sephardi . * The year 1882 marked the beginning of ...
... Jews in Palestine , most of them of the Sephardi community . By 1914 their numbers had increased by tenfold to 80,000 , and the number of Ashkenazi Jews slightly exceeded that of the Sephardi . * The year 1882 marked the beginning of ...
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... Sephardim and from the Yemenites.'8 An extremely small group of musicians and amateurs led by the physician Mordecai Sandberg ( 1898-1973 ) advocated a total segregation of the Yishuv from the West in order to absorb the influence of ...
... Sephardim and from the Yemenites.'8 An extremely small group of musicians and amateurs led by the physician Mordecai Sandberg ( 1898-1973 ) advocated a total segregation of the Yishuv from the West in order to absorb the influence of ...
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... Sephardi 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 ...
... Sephardi 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 ...
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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