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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... Ezra Aharon , who represented his former country Iraq at the first International Congress of Arabic music held in 1932 in Cairo , was the founder in 1957 of the official professional Oriental ensemble of the Israeli Radio ...
... Ezra Aharon , who represented his former country Iraq at the first International Congress of Arabic music held in 1932 in Cairo , was the founder in 1957 of the official professional Oriental ensemble of the Israeli Radio ...
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... Ezra Aharon , a fine professional musician who immigrated from Iraq in 1935. In 1936 the Palestine Broadcast Service was founded , transmitting on a single channel and alternating daily between English , Arabic , and Hebrew programmes .
... Ezra Aharon , a fine professional musician who immigrated from Iraq in 1935. In 1936 the Palestine Broadcast Service was founded , transmitting on a single channel and alternating daily between English , Arabic , and Hebrew programmes .
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Contents
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Havurot Hazemer in Israel | 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 |
Notes on Contributors | 91 |
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