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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... 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 Christian communities , such as the German ...
... 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 Christian communities , such as the German ...
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... Jerusalem was music . I was a music lover since my youth ... The Italian opera tunes which my old Polish friend , Pan Kahl , had played to me in my home town , and the pleasing Russian Waltzes which the cavalry band used to play at dawn ...
... Jerusalem was music . I was a music lover since my youth ... The Italian opera tunes which my old Polish friend , Pan Kahl , had played to me in my home town , and the pleasing Russian Waltzes which the cavalry band used to play at dawn ...
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... Jerusalem and is obvious to the present day . See Yehoshua Ben - Arieh , A City Reflected in its Times - the Old City ( Jerusalem 1977 ) ; Jerusalem in the 19th Century , ( New York , 1986 ) . 12 Margaret Kartomi , ' The Processes and ...
... Jerusalem and is obvious to the present day . See Yehoshua Ben - Arieh , A City Reflected in its Times - the Old City ( Jerusalem 1977 ) ; Jerusalem in the 19th Century , ( New York , 1986 ) . 12 Margaret Kartomi , ' The Processes and ...
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... Jerusalem was fragmented into numerous small ethnic , 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 ...
... Jerusalem was fragmented into numerous small ethnic , 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 ...
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... Jerusalem , whereas they caused a split within the otherwise homogeneous population of Tel Aviv . 2. The Audience as an Active Participant . There have been many cases in which performers have tried to overcome the blunt separation ...
... Jerusalem , whereas they caused a split within the otherwise homogeneous population of Tel Aviv . 2. The Audience as an Active Participant . There have been many cases in which performers have tried to overcome the blunt separation ...
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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