Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic [With CD (Audio)]

by Amy Horowitz

Examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century.

The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334652
• ISBN13: 9780814334652
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"