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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... religious musical traditions in their present forms ; that is to say , after more than four decades of exposure to Israeli culture , and particularly after the effort of the establishment to apply its ' melting pot ' ideology of ...
... religious musical traditions in their present forms ; that is to say , after more than four decades of exposure to Israeli culture , and particularly after the effort of the establishment to apply its ' melting pot ' ideology of ...
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... religious Christian communities , such as the German colonies in Jerusalem and in Jaffa . Jewish immigration was motivated by a constantly varying combinations of push - pull powers.5 Persecutions and discrimination in the countries of ...
... religious Christian communities , such as the German colonies in Jerusalem and in Jaffa . Jewish immigration was motivated by a constantly varying combinations of push - pull powers.5 Persecutions and discrimination in the countries of ...
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... religious , and cultural communities . The Jerusalem Music Society was the product of the cultural Jerusalem elite . Led by the cellist Thelma Yellin , the Society ran more than fifteen seasons of classic - romantic chamber concerts ...
... religious , and cultural communities . The Jerusalem Music Society was the product of the cultural Jerusalem elite . Led by the cellist Thelma Yellin , the Society ran more than fifteen seasons of classic - romantic chamber concerts ...
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... religious service and the family meals which are the core of each traditional Jewish holiday . The kibbutz re - interpreted the Jewish holidays as modern revivals . of ancient biblical agricultural rites . Of special importance was the ...
... religious service and the family meals which are the core of each traditional Jewish holiday . The kibbutz re - interpreted the Jewish holidays as modern revivals . of ancient biblical agricultural rites . Of special importance was the ...
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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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