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Popular Music and National Culture in Israel
A unique Israeli national culture-indeed, the very nature of \"Israeliness\"-remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major popular music cultures that are proving instrumental in attempts to invent Israeliness: the invented folk song repertoire known as Shirei Eretz Israel; the contemporary, global-cosmopolitan Israeli rock; and the ethnic-oriental musica mizrahit. The result is the first ever comprehensive study of popular music in Israel. Motti Regev, a sociologist, and Edwin Seroussi, an ethnomusicologist, approach their subject from alternative perspectives, producing a truly interdisciplinary, sociocultural account of music as a feature and a force in the shaping of Israeliness. A major ethnographic undertaking, describing and analyzing the particular history, characteristics, and practices of each music culture,Popular Music and National Culture in Israelmaps not only the complex field of Israeli popular music but also Israeli culture in general.
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Gossip, Rumors, Rehabilitation Israel Najara’s Shaming Revisited
Gossip and rumor as a source of historical information has occupied scholars from different fields in the humanities and social sciences for several decades. This essay addresses a series of severe accusations against the poet and musician Rabbi Israel Najara (ca. 1550–ca.1625) cast by (or in the name of) Rabbi @Hayim Vital (1543–1620) in his Sefer ha-@hezyonot, a revelatory and deeply personal diary that was not published in its original version until 1954. However, this text circulated secretly in manuscripts and orally among the rabbinical elites of the Ottoman Empire and beyond, mostly in abridged or censored versions, some of which were printed. In addition, Rabbi Menachem di Lonzano (ca. 1550–1626) also made a series of accusations against Najara's poetics and by implication, about his persona. The gossip and rumors unleashed by Vital and Lonzano generated counternarratives designed to clear Najara, whose musical poetry had become a staple of modern Sephardic spirituality and to some extent Ashkenazi too. Chiefly among those involved in clearing Najara's reputation were individuals associated with Sabbatian circles, while accusers included important figures of Ashkenazi orthodoxy. The toxic core of these rumors and gossip persisted until the present. The motivations behind contemporary accusers and defenders of the controversial poet-musician of Safed, Damascus, and Gaza, including those from within academia, are thoroughly analyzed in their historical and social contexts.
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Shamil:Concept, Practice and Reception of a Nigunin Habad Hasidism
The article discusses the conception, performance and reception of nigun Shamil as a representative case of the social, literary and technological mechanisms that characterize music in Habad, past and present. The author argues for the centrality of non-accompanied, mostly wordless vocal tunes performed by the Hasidic masters such as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, as a main vehicle for the articulation of both the heightening of mystical experience and the teaching of Hasidism.
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Shamil: Concept, Practice and Reception of a Nigun in Habad Hasidism
The article discusses the conception, performance and reception of nigun Shamil as a representative case of the social, literary and technological mechanisms that characterize music in Habad, past and present. The author argues for the centrality of non-accompanied, mostly wordless vocal tunes performed by the Hasidic masters such as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, as a main vehicle for the articulation of both the heightening of mystical experience and the teaching of Hasidism.
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Music in Antiquity
Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in the contiguous civilizations of the ancient Near East and of Greece and Rome.This book covers the range and gamut of this symbiosis, as well as scrutinizes archeological findings, texts, and iconographical materials in specific geographical areas along this continuum.
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Nostalgic Soundscapes: The Future of Israel's Sonic Past
In the course of the past 120 years of Zionist culture in Palestine/Eretz Israel and later in the State of Israel, institutional, journalistic, and academic narratives have attempted to outline the stylistic traits of the Zionist sonic capital. These attempts were sometimes based on delineating what lay beyond the boundaries of that capital. Thus, diasporic voices comprising the repository of Jewish sonic memories were left outside the confines of the Israeli soundtrack. The incorporation of those forgotten voices into recent Israeli popular music is at the core of this study. Mixing old recordings of dead family members by some major Israeli rockers in their recent productions is a growing trend reflecting a shift in the contemporary Israeli attitude towards the voices of the Diaspora. This trend is critically examined through the prism of the concepts of soundscape, technologies of the intermundane, and nostalgia. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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