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What accounts for this vast corpus of foreign songs in Israeli music and what impact have such renderings had on the development of Israeli culture? After surveying this significant, yet largely overlooked, phenomenon, Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel Stein Kokin presented on a series of test cases and argue that the extensive importation of foreign songs into Hebrew paradoxically played a key role in the creation of an autonomous Israeli musical culture.
A lecture by Ari Ariel (University of Iowa)
A lecture by Anne Regourd (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)
A book talk with author Katherine Verdery (Graduate Center CUNY, Anthropology).
A lecture by Jack Halberstam (Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature).
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