ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors concentrate on two sets of images of Jerusalem, one set arising in the Jewish Diaspora, the other in the Britain of Mandatory Palestine. The two sets of images emerge from quite different histories of engagement with Jerusalem and the East. The images that punctuate the chapter come from different sources and express different areas of musical practice. By combining folksongs and popular songs, by juxtaposing musical journalism with ethno musicological research, by juxtaposing images whose appearances are similar. Israeli popular music, the canonic genres of which have been called musica mizrakhit (Eastern music), is inseparable from its Jewish stars from the East, among the most cosmopolitan of them Ofra Haza and Dana International. In highlighting a privileged status for Jewish music, Gerson-Kiwi presents Lachmann’s project in terms consistent with the ideology and interests of the Hebrew University and the Zionist enterprise itself.
