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Sing and Sing On

Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

In Sentinel Musicians of the Ethiopian American Diaspora, Kay Kaufman Shelemay shares more than forty years of research among Ethiopian musicians in the midst of a widespread and evolving diaspora. Beginning on the eve of the Ethiopian revolution in 1974 all the way up to the present day, Shelemay follows musicians as some leave Ethiopia for the US, setting up essential networks of support in cities such as New York, Boston, and Washington, DC. Throughout this profound transition, Shelemay shows how Ethiopian musicians serve a critical function in social and political life by both safeguarding community identity and challenging authority within Ethiopian society. She coins the term "sentinel musicians" to express musicians' double capacity to guard culture and guide it through periods of change, transforming the world around them under political pressures and during times of extreme social stress. While musicians held this role in Ethiopian culture long before the revolution began, it has taken on new meanings and contours in the Ethiopian diaspora. Some sentinel musicians have quite literally led the way as they migrated to new locales, establishing transnational networks, founding new institutions, and undertaking numerous initiatives in community building. Ultimately, Shelemay shows that musicians are uniquely positioned to serve this sentinel role as guardians and challengers of cultural heritage"--

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022681002X

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Let Jasmine Rain Down

Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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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0226752119

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Soundscapes Classical

Case Studies from the Western Classical Repertory

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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Soundscapes Classical

Case Studies from the Western Classical Repertory

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

In Soundscapes Classical, twenty works from the Western classical repertoirytwo for each chapter of Soundscapesare approached within the same framework as selections drawn from the other musical traditional in the book. The setting, sound, and significance of each is discussed, allowing the instructor to substitute as many as desired for the case studies in the main text. The works are drawn from all eras, and those chosen for chapters 5-10 fall chronologically into the traditional periods of Western music, medieval through twentieth century. To insure easy access, all of the compositions are contained on the 8-CD set of The Norton Recordings that accompanies The Enjoyment of Music, Eighth Edition.

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W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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039397703X

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9780393977035

Soundscapes

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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A fascinating new introduction to music of the world's peoples, as seen from the vantage point of its function: music for dance, for the home, for worship, for political purposes, and others.

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0393977668

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A Song of Longing

An Ethiopian Journey

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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A Song of Longing

An Ethiopian Journey

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

A rich, descriptive account. . . . Shelemay presents extraordinary personal experiences that shaped her research process and make reading this text pleasurable." -- Library Journal "Highly recommended to generalists in music as well as to specialists interested in Ethiopia. . . . Also makes an excellent case study text for university-level courses examining fieldwork issues and conditions." -- Notes "Highly recommended for both undergraduate and graduate collections in ethnomusicology, anthropology, African, and Judaic studies." -- Choice

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University of Illinois Press

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0252064321

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9780252064326

A Song of Longing

An Ethiopian Journey

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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An Ethiopian Journey

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Sing and Sing On

Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora

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Singing and Wellbeing

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Proof

By: Kay Norton

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Singing and Wellbeing

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Proof

By: Kay Norton

Singing and Wellbeing provides evidence that the benefits of a melodious voice go far beyond pleasure, and confirms the importance of singing in optimum health. A largely untapped resource in the health care professions, the singing voice offers rewards that are closer than ever to being fully quantified by advances in neuroscience and psychology. For music, pre-med, bioethics, and medical humanities students, this book introduces the types of ongoing research that connect behaviour and brain function with the musical voice.

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Routledge

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1317578864

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Let Jasmine Rain Down

Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews

By: Kay Kaufman Shelemay

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Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews

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Sing and Sing On

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A Song of Longing

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