Re: from yesterday's Yediot Ahronot

[lenka lichtenberg <lenkal...>]

From: Shirona <shirona (at) bellatlantic(dot)net>
.........
> for myself - I can't get enough of that "Arabic" sounding music.  I've
even
> listened to Oum Kolthoum - the famous Egyptian singer, while remembering
how
> much I was disgusted by it as a child.  Go figure!
>
> Shirona
>
yes, it seems to run in generational circles, or cycles. my husband
apparently also hated Oum Kolthoum and anything Arabic as a child, and now,
his favourite listening is just that - plus, Natasha Atlas, any
mizrachi...(right after soul).


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "lenka lichtenberg" <lenkal (at) attcanada(dot)ca>
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:36 AM
> Subject: Re: from yesterday's Yediot Ahronot
>
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> > 13 years ago, it came as a great shock to me to find out that, having
> > married a sabra of Iraqi Jewish origin, i also married family parties of
> my
> > in-laws enlivened by Arab music groups  (very loud). i happen to enjoy
the
> > music greatly, but had a problem reconciling the fact of the family
having
> > barely escaped an Iraqi pogrom (1941 i think), and them being so stuck
on
> > Arabic - anything ( music, language, food, clothes...) . i learned,
> whatever
> > it is you grew up with is stronger than most later influences ( in their
> > case, anyway, while i'm the opposite). they don't perceive the Arab
> culture
> > as at all tainted by politics.
> >               lenka
> > www.lenkalichtenberg.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Sandra Layman <sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>
> > To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: from yesterday's Yediot Ahronot
> >
> >
> > > A somewhat related topic: it's my understanding that performers of
> > > traditional Iraqi music used to include many Jewish musicians.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <NESKATAN (at) aol(dot)com>
> > > To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:09 AM
> > > Subject: from yesterday's Yediot Ahronot
> > >
> > >
> > > > Ovadia Orders Shas Pupils to Study Arab Music
> > > >
> > > > Acting under the express instructions of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi
> > > Ovadia Yosef, teachers in Shas&#8217;s El Hamaayan schools have begun
> > giving
> > > pupils lessons on the subject of Arab musicology. Ovadia Yosef is
known
> to
> > > be an avid fan of Arabic music, and many prayers in Sephardi
synagogues
> > are
> > > sung in Arabic tunes. The change occurred in the wake of a report that
> > > appeared in the Shas newspaper, Yom Leyom, that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
> ruled:
> > > &#8220;One should give preference to Arab melodies over secular
Israeli
> > > tunes... in the quiet Arab melodies, the soul sits better with the
> melody.
> > > That is not the case with the secular melodies and all the more so in
> the
> > > foreign material, where the rhythm and the tonal jumps are relatively
> > > wild.&#8221;
> > >
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