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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... cultural environment. Altogether the general scope of these contributions correspond to a large extent to major events which have marked the musical and cultural history of modern Israel from the 1920s to the 1990s, including local Arab ...
... cultural environment. Altogether the general scope of these contributions correspond to a large extent to major events which have marked the musical and cultural history of modern Israel from the 1920s to the 1990s, including local Arab ...
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... cultural environment . Altogether the general scope of these contributions correspond to a large extent to major events which have marked the musical and cultural history of modern Israel from the 1920s to the 1990s , including local ...
... cultural environment . Altogether the general scope of these contributions correspond to a large extent to major events which have marked the musical and cultural history of modern Israel from the 1920s to the 1990s , including local ...
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... cultural role . This study refers to recent research carried out by the author . There is no doubt that in the quest ... cultures . One can see , however , that despite circumstances , traditional music still continues to be vital ...
... cultural role . This study refers to recent research carried out by the author . There is no doubt that in the quest ... cultures . One can see , however , that despite circumstances , traditional music still continues to be vital ...
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... cultural activities , but the establishment of British rule over Palestine in 1918 encouraged an intensive renewal of Jewish immigration , first from Russia and Poland , and after 1930 also from central Europe . Between 1918 and the ...
... cultural activities , but the establishment of British rule over Palestine in 1918 encouraged an intensive renewal of Jewish immigration , first from Russia and Poland , and after 1930 also from central Europe . Between 1918 and the ...
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... cultural life.14 The entire infra - structure of public musical life of the Yishuv had been established by 1936 ... cultural communities . The Jerusalem Music Society was the product of the cultural Jerusalem elite . Led by the cellist ...
... cultural life.14 The entire infra - structure of public musical life of the Yishuv had been established by 1936 ... cultural communities . The Jerusalem Music Society was the product of the cultural Jerusalem elite . Led by the cellist ...
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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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