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Let Jasmine Rain Down - Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews (Hardcover, New)
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Let Jasmine Rain Down - Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews (Hardcover, New)
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP)
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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," 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 what otherwise would have
been forgotten. In confronting issues of identity and meaning in a
postmodern world, Shelemay moves ethnomusicology into the domain of
memory studies.
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