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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... musicians , academics and music lovers . The journal concerns all aspects of music and provides information , discussion and research from around the world . Individual issues consider concert music , opera , ballet , theatre , dance ...
... musicians , academics and music lovers . The journal concerns all aspects of music and provides information , discussion and research from around the world . Individual issues consider concert music , opera , ballet , theatre , dance ...
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... musicians worked side by side . The Jewish musicians who came from such Arab countries as Iraq , Egypt and Syria , were already distinguished musicians in their own countries . One of them , the outstanding ' ud player and composer ...
... musicians worked side by side . The Jewish musicians who came from such Arab countries as Iraq , Egypt and Syria , were already distinguished musicians in their own countries . One of them , the outstanding ' ud player and composer ...
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... musicians and amateurs led by the physician Mordecai Sandberg ( 1898-1973 ) advocated a total segregation of the Yishuv from the West in order to absorb the influence of the East . Sandberg had a quarter - tone harmonium built to his ...
... musicians and amateurs led by the physician Mordecai Sandberg ( 1898-1973 ) advocated a total segregation of the Yishuv from the West in order to absorb the influence of the East . Sandberg had a quarter - tone harmonium built to his ...
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... musicians struggling for their daily bread and lacking training or predilection to anthropological fieldwork , to find their way into the enclosed eastern communities . The following adaptation of existing models of change will chart ...
... musicians struggling for their daily bread and lacking training or predilection to anthropological fieldwork , to find their way into the enclosed eastern communities . The following adaptation of existing models of change will chart ...
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... 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 . Aharon was hired to run the ...
... 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 . Aharon was hired to run the ...
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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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