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| Title | : | Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226752127 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
In confronting issues of identity and meaning in a postmodern world, Shelemay moves ethnomusicology into the domain of memory studies.. Let Jasmine Rain Down tells the story of the pizmonim as they have continued to be composed, performed, and transformed through the present day; it is thus an innovative ethnography of an important Judeo-Arabic musical tradition and a probing contribution to studies of the link between collective memory and popular culture.Shelemay views the intersection of music, individual remembrances, and collective memory through the pizmonim. When Jews left Aleppo, Syria, in the early twentieth century and established communities abroad, they carried with them a repertory of songs (pizmonim) with sacred Hebrew texts set to melodies borrowed from the popular Middle Eastern Arab musical tradition. Reconstructing a century of pizmon history in America based on research in New York, Mexico, and Israel, she explains how verbal and musical memories are embedded in individual songs and how these songs perform both what has been remembered and w
The Intrinsic Music of Jews of Syrian Heritage Presently, two books examining the music of the large community of Syrian Jews living in Brooklyn are available: one by Mark L. Kligman focuses more on liturgy, cantors, and musical structure; the earlier and more interesting volume, reviewed here, is by Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Presenting a more inclusive anthropological study, she presents how musical compo
Shelemay s research interests include musical ethnography, music and memory, and Ethiopian music and musicians in their North American diaspora. About the Author Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is G. An outstanding teacher, Shelemay received an Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Columbia University School of General Studies in 1982, the Joseph R. She is the author of nine books and editions, including Music, Ritual, and Falasha History, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Prize of the International Musicological Society. A Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, she is a Past President of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize at Harvard in 2006, and, in 2014, the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award at Harvard. Gordon Watts Pr
She is the author of nine books and editions, including Music, Ritual, and Falasha History, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Prize of the International Musicological Society. . A Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, she is a Past President of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University and has taught at Columbia, NYU, and Wesleyan.
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