ISSN:
1741-1912
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Ethnomusicology forum
Publ. der Quelle:
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 25, No. 3 (2016), p. 261-282
DDC:
390
Abstract:
This article is about the emergence of the 1960s rock musical in Israel as an ambivalent response to Zionist ideology. I demonstrate that in the Israeli context rock music's countercultural ethos has been just as integral to the genre's adoption as have been its stylistic innovations. The 'folk authenticity' signified by this music empowered playwrights and songwriters like Dan Almagor to simultaneously mobilise and undermine signifiers of the dominant ideology, giving rise to an 'aesthetics of ambivalence'. In this article, I examine two of Almagor's musicals-Once There Was a Hasid (1968) and My Jerusalem (1969)-in order to assess how the playwright navigated these cultural tensions. In so doing, I place analysis of the shows' production and reception in conversation with ethnographic interviews. In light of these materials, I argue that when popular music travels globally, ideologies about music's power to shape political discourse, rather than its stylistic innovations, often govern local adaptations of the globalised style.
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2016
DOI:
10.1080/17411912.2016.1242375
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17411912.2016.1242375
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