TY - GEN T1 - Popular music and national culture in Israel A1 - Regev, Motti A2 - Seroussi, Edwin LA - English PP - Berkeley, Calif. PB - University of California Press YR - 2004 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm56034972 AB - A unique Israeli national culture--indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness"--Remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major popular music cultures that are proving instrumental in attempts to invent Israeliness: the invented folk song repertoire known as Shirei Eretz Israel; the contemporary, global-cosmopolitan Israeli rock; and the ethnic-oriental musica mizrahit OP - 298 CN - ML3502.I75 R44 2004eb SN - 9780520936881 SN - 0520936884 SN - 0585321833 SN - 9780585321837 SN - 0520236521 SN - 9780520236523 SN - 0520236548 SN - 9780520236547 SN - 1597348228 SN - 9781597348225 SN - 1282762826 SN - 9781282762824 KW - Popular music : Social aspects : Israel. KW - Popular culture : Israel. KW - National characteristics, Israeli. KW - Musique populaire : Aspect social : Israël. KW - Culture populaire : Israël. KW - Israéliens. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture. KW - MUSIC : Ethnomusicology. KW - National characteristics, Israeli KW - Popular culture KW - Popular music : Social aspects KW - Israel ER -