Lp AWM LP 8319
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Pizmon [commercial release], 1985 Digital
FOUND IN:
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
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Collection:
The Kay Kaufman Shelemay Syrian-Jewish Collection, 1984 -1993.
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Series:
Series 3. Commercial and Privately Produced Audio Recordings
Item — lp: AWM LP 8319Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 96
Scope and Content Note:
The Shelemay Syrian-Jewish Collection, mainly on cassette tapes, contains individual oral histories, live music performances, and ancillary recordings collected as part of a research project on the pizmonim (paraliturgical hymns) of the Syrian Jews. The songs are contrafacta, setting newly composed Hebrew texts to borrowed melodies, mainly from the Arab music tradition.The main field site was Brooklyn, New York, and much of the material was gathered...