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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... Palestine before the foundation of Israel provides a rare opportunity for the study of the emergence of musical life in a highly heterogeneous immigrant society from its inception. Music served both as a powerful tool for social ...
... Palestine before the foundation of Israel provides a rare opportunity for the study of the emergence of musical life in a highly heterogeneous immigrant society from its inception. Music served both as a powerful tool for social ...
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... Palestine before the foundation of Israel provides a rare opportunity for the study of the emergence of musical life in a highly heterogeneous immigrant society from its inception . Music served both as a powerful tool for social ...
... Palestine before the foundation of Israel provides a rare opportunity for the study of the emergence of musical life in a highly heterogeneous immigrant society from its inception . Music served both as a powerful tool for social ...
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... 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 nationally ...
... 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 nationally ...
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... Palestine while lecturing in New York . In 1970 he moved to Toronto . His two micro - tone instruments have been temporarily placed at the Department of Music , York University , Toronto . They are in need of a thorough repair . ethnic ...
... Palestine while lecturing in New York . In 1970 he moved to Toronto . His two micro - tone instruments have been temporarily placed at the Department of Music , York University , Toronto . They are in need of a thorough repair . ethnic ...
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... Palestine of transplanted European ensembles and traditional eastern in - context performance . 10 Amnon Shiloah & Eric Cohen , " The Dynamics of Change in Jewish Oriental Ethnic Music in Israel ' , Ethnomusicology , 27 ( 1983 ) , 237 ...
... Palestine of transplanted European ensembles and traditional eastern in - context performance . 10 Amnon Shiloah & Eric Cohen , " The Dynamics of Change in Jewish Oriental Ethnic Music in Israel ' , Ethnomusicology , 27 ( 1983 ) , 237 ...
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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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