Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Author)
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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.

• Rank: #90237 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x 5.94" w x .79" l, 1.03 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 310 pages

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Author Biography Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is a past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She traveled and conducted research in Ethiopia and Israel during graduate school and wrote her dissertation on the liturgical music of the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). A monograph of her work, Music, Ritual and Falasha History, earned her the 1986 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the 1988 Prize of the International Musicological Society. Details ISBN 0226752127 ISBN-13 9780226752129 Title Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews [With *] Author Kay Kaufman Shelemay Format Paperback Year 1998

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