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In the areas now controlled by both Israel and Palestine, multiple ethnic groups and religions have long held on to a diversity of cultures. Mandatory Palestine population with Arabs (including urban and rural Muslim classes, Arab Christians, Druze and Muslim Bedouin) constituted the largest group, followed by Jews (including Sephardim, Mizrahim and Ashkenazim), Samaritans, Circassians ...
Muslimgauze was the main musical project of Bryn Jones (17 June 1961 – 14 January 1999), [1] a British ethnic electronica and experimental musician who was influenced by conflicts and history in the Muslim world, often with an emphasis on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
The song, one of the first Arabic-language songs to deal with Jerusalem in any detail, [5] was immensely well-received, becoming an instant hit, [6] the most popular of Fairuz's songs about Palestine, [7] [8] and one of the most celebrated songs of the Arab world.
[2] [3] [4] While perceived to be an Israeli folk song, [2] British music journalist Norman Lebrecht stated that the melody of "Hevenu shalom aleichem" originated among Hasidic Jews in Romania. [4] The Hebrew-language text of the song was added to the traditional Hasidic melody by Jews in Palestine prior to the foundation of Israel in 1948. [2]
The ESNCM Orchestra, the only Palestinian symphony orchestra performing in Palestine today where all the musicians are drawn from the local communities, promotes concerts throughout the year in the main Palestinian towns and cities. It performs an eclectic mix of film western classical music, opera, arrangements of Arabic music, and film music.
On 1 November, Osher Cohen released the song “Tirkedi (10/7/23)” in memory of the victims of the nature party massacre, [26] with the names of those murdered on October 7 appearing in the music video. [27] On 2 November, the singer Eliav Zohar released “As One Body”. [28] On 3 November, the singer Shlomi Shabbat released “Bedamaich ...
The band Kofia (Swedish for 'keffiyeh') was formed in Gothenburg in 1972 by George Totari (born 1946 in Nazareth), a Palestinian musician who moved to Sweden in 1967 amid the Six-Day War and became naturalized, alongside four other musicians: Palestinian percussionist Michel Kreitem (born 1946 in Jerusalem), whose family was forced to relocate to Jordan between 1948–1952, and who moved out ...
DAM's music is focused on Palestinian identity, culture, and resistance, and the group has frequently used their music and profile to raise awareness of the Palestinian cause, often performing their music in collaboration with activist groups. The name DAM is an acronym for "Da Arab MCs" that also means "enduring" or "everlasting" in Arabic or ...