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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... Hebrew art of the future than the formal European tune , and the dances of ... Hebrew periodical ) . 9 On the brink of World War II Sandberg was cut off from ... University , Toronto . They are in need of a thorough repair . ethnic ...
... Hebrew art of the future than the formal European tune , and the dances of ... Hebrew periodical ) . 9 On the brink of World War II Sandberg was cut off from ... University , Toronto . They are in need of a thorough repair . ethnic ...
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... Hebrew University ( founded 1925 ) , and the Zionist leadership . Though ethnically and religiously heterogeneous , the membership comprised the social and intellectual elite of Jerusalem and most of them had known each other from ...
... Hebrew University ( founded 1925 ) , and the Zionist leadership . Though ethnically and religiously heterogeneous , the membership comprised the social and intellectual elite of Jerusalem and most of them had known each other from ...
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... U. Boskovitch . In 1941 the dancer Yardena Cohen started to employ three Jewish fishmongers of Iraqi origin to accompany her allegedly biblical dances on the darabukka , the ' ūd , and the Arabic flute . After two years of abrasive ...
... U. Boskovitch . In 1941 the dancer Yardena Cohen started to employ three Jewish fishmongers of Iraqi origin to accompany her allegedly biblical dances on the darabukka , the ' ūd , and the Arabic flute . After two years of abrasive ...
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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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