
Topics: 1) Introduction I. Studying social groups through their cultural representations. Minorities in the Study of Ethnomusicology. 2) Introduction II. Diverse Jewish soundscapes as parts of contemporary global and diasporic cultural flows 3) Ashkenazic Sacred Soundscapes I. Synagogues, Hazzanim and the Art of Nusah (Prague case). 4) Ashkenazic Sacred Soundscapes II. Negotiating the Identity through Ritual Sounds. (Boston and Prague case) 5) Ashkenazic Sacred Soundscapes III. Ritual Music and Social Memory (Prague case) 6) Sephardic Soundscapes (case of Syrian Jewish diaspora) 7) On Sephardic Pizmonim, Power and Gender 8) Falasha Sacred Soundscapes (Forced migration of Ethiopian Jews and its impact on their music) 9) Klezmer Soundscapes I. On Questions of Cultural Representations and Appropriation 10) Klezmer Soundscapes II. On Questions of Cultural Representations and Appropriation 11) Soundscapes of Holocaust (Terezín case) 12) On Zemirot and negotiating the political resistance in CSSR 13) Israeli dance- and soundscape in Prague
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