Let Jasmine Rain Down Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews

Name: Let Jasmine Rain Down Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews
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ISBN: 9780226752112

ISBN-10: 0226752119

ISBN-13: 9780226752112

Edition: 1998

Authors: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

List price: $114.00

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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. 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.…

Book details

List price: $114.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 310
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.



List of Illustrations


Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Jasmine: Poem on Sandpaper


Introduction Prelude




Song and Remembrance Prelude




Music and Migration in a Transnational Community Prelude




A Judeo-Arab Musical Tradition Prelude




Lived Musical Genres Prelude




Individual Creativity, Collective Memory Prelude




Conclusion: A Community in Song Embroidered Rag: Poem on



Notes


Glossary


Contents of Compact Disc


Bibliography


Discography


Formal Interviews


Music Sessions


Index