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The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and poor neighborhoods, they created a new pan-ethnic Mizrahi identity and a homegrown hybrid music that inspired equal parts high-pitched enthusiasm and resistance along the fault lines of Israels ethnic divide. In Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic, author Amy Horowitz investigates the emergence of a new pan-ethnic Mizrahi style of music between the 1970s and 1990s, as the community struggled to gain recognition on the overlapping stages of politics and music. This volume is both an ethnographic study based on Horowitzs immersion in the Mizrahi community and a multi-voiced account of community members, who describe their music and musicians who play it. Horowitz focuses primarily on the work of three artistsAvihu Medina, Zohar Argov, and Zehava Benwho pioneered a recognizable Mizrahi style and moved this new musical formation from the Mizrahi neighborhoods t

Author

Horowitz, Amy

Publisher

Detroit: Wayne State University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814334652

Subjects

Music, Islam, Social Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14