Essential Reading
Philip V. Bohlman, “Afterword Shireh ‘Am, Shireh Medinah (Folk Song, National Song) in Hans Nathan,” ed. Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the Early Pioneers (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1994), pp. 35-59
Assaf Shelleg, “Hava Nagila? Decentering the Eastern European Soundscape,” Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History, Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 15-72.
Amy Horowitz, “The Mediterranean Israeli Music Phenomenon,” Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic, Wayne State University Press, 2010, pp. 59-84
David A. McDonald, “Carrying Words Like Weapons: DAM Brings Hip-Hop to the West Bank,” ch 9: 262-282 in My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance, Duke University Press, 2013.
Recommended Reading:
Gila Flam, “Beracha Zephira: A Case Study of Acculturation in Israeli Song,” Asian Music 17:2 (1986), pp. 108-125
Motti Regev and Edwin Seroussi, “The Lehaqot Tzvayiot (Army Ensemles)” ch 5:90-112 and “And the Winner Is . . .: Popular Song Festivals” ch 6: pp. 113-133 in Popular Music and National Culture in Israel, University of California Press, 2004
Motti Regev and Edwin Seroussi, “The Invention of Israeli Rock” ch 7: pp. 137-160 in Popular Music and National Culture in Israel, University of California Press, 2004
Scott Streiner, “Shooting and Crying: The Emergence of Protest in Israeli Popular Music,” The European Legacy vol. 6/6 (2001), pp. 771-792
Mark Kligman, “Music” in Jews of the Middle East and North African in Modern Times, Reeva Spector Simon, Michael Menachem Laskier, and Sara Reguer editors. Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 224-234, 505-527
Benjamin Brinner. Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters, New York: Oxford, 2009
Ilana Webster-Kogen, “Song Style as Strategy: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship in The Idan Raichel Project’s Ethiopian-influences Songs,” Ethnomusicology Forum, 23 (1), pp. 27-48