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The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today: A Special Issue of the Journal Musical Performance

The Performance of Jewish and Arab Music in Israel Today: A Special Issue of the Journal Musical Performance

Shiloah, Amnon

Paperback

Series: Musical Performance

General Music

ISBN10: 9057020645
ISBN13: 9789057020643
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 1 1997
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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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