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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... singing in the collective settlements ( the Ķibbutzim ) where it fulfilled a highly social and cultural role . This ... community events . Nevertheless , transformations occurred , even in the highly functional music of the synagogue ...
... singing in the collective settlements ( the Ķibbutzim ) where it fulfilled a highly social and cultural role . This ... community events . Nevertheless , transformations occurred , even in the highly functional music of the synagogue ...
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... community . By 1914 their numbers had increased by tenfold to 80,000 , and ... communities , such as the German colonies in Jerusalem and in Jaffa . Jewish ... singing in Hebrew and social gatherings in concerts were favoured by the ...
... community . By 1914 their numbers had increased by tenfold to 80,000 , and ... communities , such as the German colonies in Jerusalem and in Jaffa . Jewish ... singing in Hebrew and social gatherings in concerts were favoured by the ...
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... singing which used to come out of old gramophones here and there in the Old ... group of musicians and amateurs led by the physician Mordecai Sandberg ( 1898 ... community , and an external audience.10 Generally speaking , Ideology and ...
... singing which used to come out of old gramophones here and there in the Old ... group of musicians and amateurs led by the physician Mordecai Sandberg ( 1898 ... community , and an external audience.10 Generally speaking , Ideology and ...
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... community events for an internal audience . Distinction between active performers and passive listeners was often blurred , with the congregation frequently joining in , singing and playing.11 By contrast , the European pattern ...
... community events for an internal audience . Distinction between active performers and passive listeners was often blurred , with the congregation frequently joining in , singing and playing.11 By contrast , the European pattern ...
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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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