Department of Musicology
Subject: 'One Proper Song, Perfect and Pure' – The Theory of the Israeli Song
Supervisor: Prof. Ruth HaCohen Pinchover, Prof. Edwin Seroussi
Abstract: My dissertation (currently titled:"'One Proper Song, Perfect and Pure' – The Theory of the Israeli Song"), advised by Prof. Ruth HaCohen Pinchover and Prof. Edwin Seroussi, is an historical inquiry of the theoretical constructions of the Israeli song. I am interested in the processes that ultimately generated the Israeli song as a unique and independent object of musicological study (in the 1940s-1960s), and how the musicology of the Israeli song relates to earlier musicological traditions that centered on the subject of Hebrew-Jewish music. The fundamental questions of my research touch upon issues of scientific approaches to of the phenomenon of song as well as the interplay between creative musical endeavors and the formation of an academic discipline.
Bio: I am a PhD candidate in the Musicology Department, and an active musician ("Avodot Afar"). My dissertation (currently titled:"'One Proper Song, Perfect and Pure' – The Theory of the Israeli Song"), advised by Prof. Ruth HaCohen Pinchover and Prof. Edwin Seroussi, is an historical inquiry of the theoretical constructions of the Israeli song. I am interested in the processes that ultimately generated the Israeli song as a unique and independent object of musicological study (in the 1940s-1960s), and how the musicology of the Israeli song relates to earlier musicological traditions that centered on the subject of Hebrew-Jewish music. The fundamental questions of my research touch upon issues of scientific approaches to of the phenomenon of song as well as the interplay between creative musical endeavors and the formation of an academic discipline. My book, "The Bridge is Dead: A Theory & Short History of Everyday Songs in Hebrew", was published in 2017 (Hakibbutz Hameuchad).
Publications:
'הגשר מת: תיאוריה והיסטוריה קצרה של שירים יומיומיים בעברית', הקיבוץ המאוחד (קו אדום אמנות), 2017
President Stipend 2018/19