Authors
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Edwin Seroussi
The Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Keywords:
social tensions around the content, transmission and consumption of music, ideologies, policies and diffusion
Abstract
Israelis produce a staggering amount of contrasting musical voices, generating a dense sonic cloud of musical memories that at once compete and complement each other, clash and harmonize, conflict and blend. Interpreting the Israeli soundtrack clarifies the complexity of a society marred with contradictions but also blessed with an unprecedent vitality for musical creativity.
Author Biography
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Edwin Seroussi , The Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Edwin Seroussi is Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology and Director of the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi immigrated to Israel in 1971 where he studied at the Department of Musicology at the undergraduate and graduate levels continuing into his doctoral studies at the University of California Los Angeles (1981-1987). As a faculty member of the Department of Musicology at The Hebrew University, he teaches ethnomusicology, world music, theory and methodology in the study of oral traditions and popular music. Besides his academic activities he is active in the music scene of Israel and abroad in diverse capacities as music producer, member of state committees in music and Israel’s representative at the International Music Council (UNESCO). His books include Popular Music and National Culture in Israel (Univ. of California, 2004) (co-written with Motti Regev), Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Music in Nineteenth-century Reform Sources from Hamburg: Ancient Tradition in the Dawn of Modernity (Jerusalem, 1996), and Cancionero sefardí by Alberto Hemsi (Jerusalem, 1995), and he has edited several CDs of Jewish music, among them Titgadal ve-titkadash betokh Yerushalayim - Jerusalem in Hebrew Prayers and Songs (Wergo, Berlin 1996) and Chants judéo-espagnols de la Mediterraneé orientale (Inedit, Paris 1994). In May 2018 Prof. Seroussi was awarded the Israel Prize for his research in culture, arts and musicology.
