Evan Rapport
Biographic Data
| ID | 84028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan Rapport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPPORT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Musical Exodus
Book Review| January 01 2020 Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas. Ruth F. Davis, ed. 2015. Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities 19. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. xxxv, 220 pp., photographs, maps, musical examples, references, index. Evan Rapport Evan Rapport The New School Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2020) 64 (1): 172–174. htt…
Prosodic Rhythm in Jewish Sacred Music
Musical rhythms are connected to prosodic principles in many Jewish sacred music practices. For Persian-speaking Jews of Iran and Central Asia, rhythms are especially informed by ingrained habits of interpreting Persian quantitative poetic meters, applied to both Hebrew- and Persian-language texts. For describing and analyzing Jewish sacred music in the Iranian and Central Asian traditions, the term "prosodic rhythm" usefully highlights the impor…
Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends
Book Review| May 01 2015 Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends. Hiromi Lorraine Sakata. 2013. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc. xvii, 176 pp., illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper, $35.00. Evan Rapport Evan Rapport Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2015) 59 (2): 346–348. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.59.2.0346 Cite I…
Performing Bukharian Jewish History
Ilyos Mallayev's play Levicha Hofiz (“Levicha the Singer”), staged by the Bukharian Jewish community in 1999, illuminates the ways in which Bukharians in New York interpret their history as a precedent and model for immigrant life. The community galvanized around the story of Levi Bobokhonov, the last court singer in Bukhara, demonstrating the importance of the role of professional musician and this transitional time period from the end of the Bu…
Greeted With Smiles
'Greeted with Smiles' explores the circumstances facing new American immigrants, using the music of the Bukharian Jews to gain entrance into their community and their culture. Author Evan Rapport investigates the transformation of Bukharian identity through an examination of corresponding changes in its music, focusing on three of these distinct but overlapping repertoires - maquom, Jewish religious music and popular music
Hearing punk as blues
Punk is an extreme manifestation of the rock project, meaning that it depends on an association of raw and authentic expression with blackness, musically represented by particular approaches to the blues, combined with processes of white appropriation, transformation and obfuscation of those blues resources. Punk's powerful affect largely derives from the tension between punk's blues foundations and strategies that obscure its roots. Punk treatme…
Falak
Book Review| April 01 2007 Falak: The Voice of Destiny: Traditional, Popular, and Symphonic Music of Tajikistan Falak: The Voice of Destiny: Traditional, Popular, and Symphonic Music of Tajikistan, Federico Spinetti. Evan Rapport Evan Rapport Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (2): 358–360. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174535 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
New York
Hearing punk as blues
Punk is an extreme manifestation of the rock project, meaning that it depends on an association of raw and authentic expression with blackness, musically represented by particular approaches to the blues, combined with processes of white appropriation, transformation and obfuscation of those blues resources. Punk's powerful affect largely derives from the tension between punk's blues foundations and strategies that obscure its roots. Punk treatme…
New York
Falak
Book Review| April 01 2007 Falak: The Voice of Destiny: Traditional, Popular, and Symphonic Music of Tajikistan Falak: The Voice of Destiny: Traditional, Popular, and Symphonic Music of Tajikistan, Federico Spinetti. Evan Rapport Evan Rapport Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (2): 358–360. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174535 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permission…
Performing Bukharian Jewish History
Ilyos Mallayev's play Levicha Hofiz (“Levicha the Singer”), staged by the Bukharian Jewish community in 1999, illuminates the ways in which Bukharians in New York interpret their history as a precedent and model for immigrant life. The community galvanized around the story of Levi Bobokhonov, the last court singer in Bukhara, demonstrating the importance of the role of professional musician and this transitional time period from the end of the Bu…
Greeted With Smiles
'Greeted with Smiles' explores the circumstances facing new American immigrants, using the music of the Bukharian Jews to gain entrance into their community and their culture. Author Evan Rapport investigates the transformation of Bukharian identity through an examination of corresponding changes in its music, focusing on three of these distinct but overlapping repertoires - maquom, Jewish religious music and popular music
Hearing punk as blues
Punk is an extreme manifestation of the rock project, meaning that it depends on an association of raw and authentic expression with blackness, musically represented by particular approaches to the blues, combined with processes of white appropriation, transformation and obfuscation of those blues resources. Punk's powerful affect largely derives from the tension between punk's blues foundations and strategies that obscure its roots. Punk treatme…
Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends
Book Review| May 01 2015 Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends. Hiromi Lorraine Sakata. 2013. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc. xvii, 176 pp., illustrations, maps, glossary, bibliography, index. Paper, $35.00. Evan Rapport Evan Rapport Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2015) 59 (2): 346–348. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.59.2.0346 Cite I…
Prosodic Rhythm in Jewish Sacred Music
Musical rhythms are connected to prosodic principles in many Jewish sacred music practices. For Persian-speaking Jews of Iran and Central Asia, rhythms are especially informed by ingrained habits of interpreting Persian quantitative poetic meters, applied to both Hebrew- and Persian-language texts. For describing and analyzing Jewish sacred music in the Iranian and Central Asian traditions, the term "prosodic rhythm" usefully highlights the impor…
Musical Exodus
Book Review| January 01 2020 Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas. Ruth F. Davis, ed. 2015. Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities 19. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. xxxv, 220 pp., photographs, maps, musical examples, references, index. Evan Rapport Evan Rapport The New School Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2020) 64 (1): 172–174. htt…
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