mapping popular music in israel

Week 11: From Sanremo to Tel Aviv (via Woodstock): Pop, Mediterranean Culture, and America

Francesco Spagnolo | Music in Israel | UC Berkeley Fall 2013

globalization of Music in Israel

“Pop music” in the early days of the State (1950s)

Music festivals in Israel

Israeli participation in Eurovision song contests

globalization of Music in Israel

Sanremo popular song festival (“Festival della Canzone Italiana, RAI, 1951)

Festival of Israeli Song (festival ha-zemer ha-yisraeli, by Israel Broadcasting Authority, 1960)

Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson, European Broadcasting Union, Lugano 1956

Israeli participation in Eurovision: since 1978

popular Song: Key elements

Melodic line

Refrain (chorus)

Rhythm

Vocal Style

Instrumentation/Arrangement

popular songs in Israel: Cultural provenance

Jewish musical traditions

SLI (songs of the land of Israel)

East European popular music

Western (globalized) popular music: French chanson, British/American rock, etc.

Music from the lands of Islam

Exotic (globalized) popular music: Afro-Cuban, Tango, Greek, Indian, etc.

permutational property of (popular) music in Israelof (popular) music in Israel

Melodic line

Refrain (chorus)

Rhythm

Vocal Style

Instrumentation/Arrangement

Jewish musical traditions

SLI (songs of the land of Israel)

East European popular music

Western (globalized) popular music: French chanson, British/American rock, etc.

Music from the lands of Islam

Exotic (globalized) popular music: Afro-Cuban, Tango, Greek, Indian, etc.

permutative property of (popular) music in Israelof (popular) music in Israel

Melodic line

Refrain (chorus)

Rhythm

Vocal Style

Instrumentation/Arrangement

Jewish musical traditions

SLI (songs of the land of Israel)

East European popular music

Western (globalized) popular music: French chanson, British/American rock, etc.

Music from the lands of Islam

Exotic (globalized) popular music: Afro-Cuban, Tango, Greek, Indian, etc.

permutational property of (popular) music in Israelof (popular) music in Israel

Melodic line

Refrain (chorus)

Rhythm

Vocal Style

Instrumentation/Arrangement

Jewish musical traditions

SLI (songs of the land of Israel)

East European popular music

Western (globalized) popular music: French chanson, British/American rock, etc.

Music from the lands of Islam

Exotic (globalized) popular music: Afro-Cuban, Tango, Greek, Indian, etc.

permutational property of (popular) music in Israelof (popular) music in Israel

Melodic line

Refrain (chorus)

Rhythm

Vocal Style

Instrumentation/Arrangement

Jewish musical traditions

SLI (songs of the land of Israel)

East European popular music

Western (globalized) popular music: French chanson, British/American rock, etc.

Music from the lands of Islam

Exotic (globalized) popular music: Afro-Cuban, Tango, Greek, Indian, etc.

can this complexity be “mapped”?

TRHEE TYPES OF LABYRINTH

1. Unicursal: from A to B (with Minotaur)

2. Broken paths: “tree of knowledge”

3. Network: all node can connect with all other nodes (impossible to map)

labyrinth one: Knossos

From A to B: a line

labyrinth two: broken paths

The “tree of knowledge”

labyrinth two: broken paths

The “tree of knowledge”

labyrinth three: the web

MIT Technology Review: Mapping the Internethttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/408104/mapping-the-internet/