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Greeted With Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York

  • Author: Rapport, Evan
Rapport explores three major musical repertoires of contemporary groups: "ethnic" music, religious music, and party music ... Recommended

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Contents

  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures and Transcribed Music Examples
  • List of Audio Music Examples
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Selected Biographical Sketches
  • Introduction
  • 1. Performing Bukharian Jewish History: Ilyos Mallayev's Play Levicha Hofiz
  • Remembering Old Bukhara
  • Vestiges of Soviet Central Asia in Levicha Hofiz
  • Levicha Hofiz and New York
  • 2. Adapting Bukharian Jewish Musical Life to Multicultural New York
  • From Melting Pot to Mosaic Ideologies among Jewish Americans
  • Jewish Multiculturalism and Bukharian Jews
  • Ethnic Music in Multicultural New York
  • 3. Maqom: Bukharian Jewish Classical Music
  • Defining the Maqom Repertoire
  • Canonical Shashmaqom Editions and National Questions
  • Maqom on the World Music Stage
  • Maqom and Intercultural Encounters between Jews and Muslims
  • Maqom and Intracultural Jewish Encounters
  • The State of Maqom Transmission in New York
  • Updating the Classical Repertoire
  • 4. Religious Repertoire: Like Mushrooms After the Rain
  • Defining the Religious Repertoire
  • Toward Jewish Centers
  • Toward Bukharian Jewish Distinctiveness
  • Bukharian Diasporic Consciousness: Combining Senses of Belonging and Otherness
  • Religious Repertoire as Bukharian Ethnic Music
  • 5. Party Music: Expressing Cosmopolitanism
  • Defining the Party Repertoire
  • Cosmopolitanism and Bukharian Jewish Identity
  • A Generational Crossroads
  • 6. Ziyorat
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Discography