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Let Jasmine Rain Down : Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Let Jasmine Rain Down Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Author: Kay Kaufman Shelemay
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 c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226752129
ISBN-10: 0226752127
Publication Date: 12/1/1998
Pages: 310
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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