Jewish Music

Seroussi, Edwin

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“…Jews have been prominent participants in the making of modern musical idioms in many Arab countries (Seroussi 2015; Shannon 2015; Langlois 2015; Kojman 2001). With the mass migration of Arab Jews to Israel after 1948, a large number of musicians brought with them diverse musical practices from across the Arab world.…”

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“… 4 Much of the ‘ Shaʿbi pop from the fifties’ that Elkayam is referring to was recorded by Algerian Jews, predominantly from the West-Algerian city of Oran, such as Lili l'Abassi, Line Monty, Reinette l'Oranaise and Maurice El Mediouni, with whom she has collaborated many times. For an overview of the role of Jewish musicians in the Arab world (and in the Maghreb in particular), see Seroussi (2015). …”

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Sounding Arabic: postvernacular modes of performing the Arabic language in popular music by Israeli Jews

Erez¹,

Karkabi²

2019

Pop. Mus.

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Popular music in Israel has recently seen a surge in the use of Arabic in music made by Israeli-Jewish musicians. Most of these, although descendants of immigrants from Arab countries, never acquired Arabic at home or in school, owing to national ideology which sought to label Arabic as the language of the non-Jewish other. This article reveals and contextualises this recent trend, offering a typology of the ways in which musicians engage with Arabic, their motivations for doing so and the challenges that they face. Discussing musicians who approach Arabic as Jewish heritage, as an aesthetic repository, or even as mere sound, we identify these mobilisations of Arabic as postvernacular uses of language, which often privilege its non-semantic qualities. Observed in the context of Israeli–Arab enmity, this trend appears to have emerged surprisingly not in spite of, but partly because of, the decline in peace prospects.

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