Popular Music and National Culture in Israel
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780520236547
Subjects: Contemporary popular music; Cultural studies; Popular music; National characteristics, Isra; Israel; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Popular culture; Music; National characteristics, Israeli; Popular Culture - General; Music / General; General; Social aspects; Ethnomusicology; Middle East - General
First sentence: Zionist settlement in Palestine (as the country was called during the centuries when it was part of the Ottoman Empire and later the British Mandate) began in the last two decades of the nineteenth century and continued with further waves of Jewish immigration during the thirty years of British rule after World War I.