[HANASHIR:16712] Re: Jewish Music from Yemen

[Judah Cohen <jmc31...>]

Sue,

There's a lot of stuff out there, from the first volume of A. Z. 
Idelsohn's Thesaurus to a 1992 27 minute video on the Music of the Jews 
of Yemen (viewable at http://sites.huji.ac.il/jfa/kv/jewcom1.html).  
The other possibility would be to look in Harvard's HOLLIS system 
(http://hollisweb.harvard.edu) for Subject=Jews, Yemenite--music.  
There are a good number of albums there, and you can find the ones that 
are available in your area.

That said, however, there's no real evidence that Yemenite Jewish music 
is any older than music of the Jews from any other part of the world.  
A. Z. Idelsohn tried to place Yemenite Jews as the "oldest" preserved 
form of Judaism (and therefore music) in the historical hierarchy he 
tried to create in his Thesaurus.  But although he produced a lot of 
wonderful material on the Yemenite community, he didn't really show it 
was particularly old besides speculating that "it's the world's oldest 
Jewish musical tradition."

Good luck!
Judah.


On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 03:28 PM, Sue Marx wrote:

> Chaverim-
>
> I'm looking for good examples of Jewish music from Yemen, including 
> some
> that will illustrate the point that music from that area of the world 
> is
> seriously OLD!!
>
> Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance to this wonderful list!
>
> Sue Marx
>
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