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Author Brinner, Benjamin Elon.

Title Playing across a divide : Israeli-Palestinian musical encounters / Benjamin Brinner
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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 MELB  780.9569409049 Bri/Paa  AVAILABLE
Description 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Setting the stage. First encounters -- Arab musicians in Israel and the West Bank -- Israeli musical life -- Musicians, bands, networks. Alei Hazayit -- Bustan Abraham -- Two bands, two interactive musical networks -- Yair Dalal -- A larger network : the ethnic music scene in Israel -- New forms of musical expression. Musical mixtures : fusion of styles and styles of fusion -- Bustan Abraham's approaches to composition and improvisation -- Roots and routes. Representations of place and time -- Roots in the past, routes to the future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-342), discographies, and index
Subject Music -- Social aspects -- Israel.
Music -- Israel -- History and criticism.
Palestinian Arabs -- Music -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
LC no. 2009003323
ISBN 0195175816
0195395948
9780195175813
9780195395945