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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... and Egyptian classical and " mainstream " or modernized styles . In his contribution , Suheil Radwan a Christian - Arab musician who for more than four decades has been involved in many musical manifestations and educational activities ...
... and Egyptian classical and " mainstream " or modernized styles . In his contribution , Suheil Radwan a Christian - Arab musician who for more than four decades has been involved in many musical manifestations and educational activities ...
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... or ideological , which determined the subsequent direction selected by the performing groups under discussion.1 Yet , while it is frequently possible to determine the precise date of the founding of a particular orchestra or opera ...
... or ideological , which determined the subsequent direction selected by the performing groups under discussion.1 Yet , while it is frequently possible to determine the precise date of the founding of a particular orchestra or opera ...
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... and Arabs lived together in the mixed cities Jerusalem and Haifa and in adjacent towns such as Jaffa and Tel Aviv , to which was added the pronounced presence of Europeans , whether as part of the British administration or as religious ...
... and Arabs lived together in the mixed cities Jerusalem and Haifa and in adjacent towns such as Jaffa and Tel Aviv , to which was added the pronounced presence of Europeans , whether as part of the British administration or as religious ...
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... and there in the Old City or at the Arab cafe near Jaffa Gate , and the eastern chanting of our brethren the Jews of Babylon and Syria , accompanied by their monotonous harp , did not sound to my ears as music at all , but as part of ...
... and there in the Old City or at the Arab cafe near Jaffa Gate , and the eastern chanting of our brethren the Jews of Babylon and Syria , accompanied by their monotonous harp , did not sound to my ears as music at all , but as part of ...
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... with each others . The national ideology pressured composers and performers raised on the European model to turn to the East , an act which would have required immigrant musicians struggling for their daily bread and lacking training or ...
... with each others . The national ideology pressured composers and performers raised on the European model to turn to the East , an act which would have required immigrant musicians struggling for their daily bread and lacking training or ...
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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