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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... 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 colonies in Jerusalem and in Jaffa . Jewish immigration was ...
... 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 colonies in Jerusalem and in Jaffa . Jewish immigration was ...
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... Tel Aviv , 1980 . 8 Hedim 1 ( 1922 ) , 37-8 ( A literary Hebrew periodical ) . 9 On the brink of World War II Sandberg was cut off from Palestine while lecturing in New York . In 1970 he moved to Toronto . His two micro - tone ...
... Tel Aviv , 1980 . 8 Hedim 1 ( 1922 ) , 37-8 ( A literary Hebrew periodical ) . 9 On the brink of World War II Sandberg was cut off from Palestine while lecturing in New York . In 1970 he moved to Toronto . His two micro - tone ...
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... Tel Aviv , though utterly different from one another , led to the adaptation of the pattern of internal audience to that of the public concert through the flowering of numerous concert societies . The population of cosmopolitan ...
... Tel Aviv , though utterly different from one another , led to the adaptation of the pattern of internal audience to that of the public concert through the flowering of numerous concert societies . The population of cosmopolitan ...
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... Tel Aviv . 2. The Audience as an Active Participant . There have been many cases in which performers have tried to overcome the blunt separation between active performers on stage and a passive audience in the auditorium . Most ...
... Tel Aviv . 2. The Audience as an Active Participant . There have been many cases in which performers have tried to overcome the blunt separation between active performers on stage and a passive audience in the auditorium . Most ...
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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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