Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews [With *]

by Kay Kaufman Shelemay and Shelemay

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226752127
• ISBN13: 9780226752129
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"