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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456738103321

Autore

Brinner Benjamin

Titolo

Playing across a Divide [[electronic resource] ] : Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

ISBN

1-282-38441-4

9786612384417

0-19-972113-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

306.4842095694

Soggetti

Music --  Social aspects -- Israel

Music -- Israel -- History and criticism

Palestinian Arabs -- Music -- History and criticism

Music - History and criticism - Israel

Palestinian Arabs - History and criticism - Music - Israel

Music - Social aspects

Music

Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political

Music, Dance, Drama & Film

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part I: Setting the Stage; 1 First Encounters; 2 Arab Musicians in Israel and the West Bank; 3 Israeli Musical Life; Part II: Musicians, Bands, Networks; 4 Alei Hazayit; 5 Bustan Abraham; 6 Two Bands, Two Interactive Musical Networks; 7 Yair Dalal; 8 A Larger Network-The Ethnic Music Scene in Israel; Part III: New Forms of Musical Expression; 9 Musical Mixtures-Fusion of Styles and Styles of Fusion; 10 Bustan Abraham's Approaches to Composition and Improvisation; Part IV: Roots and Routes; 11 Representations of Place and Time; 12 Roots in the Past, Routes to the Future

Audio RecordingsGlossary; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W



Sommario/riassunto

In the last decade of the twentieth century and on into the twenty-first, Israelis and Palestinians saw the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the escalation of suicide bombings and retaliations in the region. During this tumultuous time, numerous collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian musicians coalesced into a significant musical scene informed by these extremes of hope and despair on both national and personal levels. Following the bands Bustan Abraham and Alei Hazayit from