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Popular Music and National Culture in Israel
Motti Regev
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Description for Popular Music and National Culture in Israel
Paperback. A interdisciplinary sociocultural account of music as a feature and a force in the shaping of Israeliness. Maps not only the complex field of Israeli popular music but also Israeli culture in general. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; AVG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 68.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520236547
SKU
V9780520236547
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About Motti Regev
Motti Regev is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of Rock: Music & Culture and Oud and Guitar: The Musical Culture of the Arabs in Israel. Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology and Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of ... Read more
Reviews for Popular Music and National Culture in Israel
“A meticulously researched survey of five decades of music in Israel.“
American Journal of Sociology
“A fascinating study, full of interesting detail relating to a musical culture that is generally invisible beyond Israel.”
Jewish Chronicle
"Recommended."
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American Journal of Sociology
“A fascinating study, full of interesting detail relating to a musical culture that is generally invisible beyond Israel.”
Jewish Chronicle
"Recommended."
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