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‘Dice la nuestra novia’ (Says Our Bride)
Music and Poetry in the Wedding Songs of the Moroccan Sephardim
in European Judaism
Author:
Susana Weich-Shahak
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Abstract
This article presents a selection of Moroccan Sephardi wedding songs based on authentic recordings from the author's own field work and representing the various Jewish communities in northern Morocco. Among the musico-poetic songs of the Moroccan Sephardim, the wedding songs are, certainly, the richest repertoire, with special songs that fulfil a definite function in each of the stages of the Sephardic wedding. This repertoire is performed by women, more often than not in group singing, with men joining in the repeated refrain. The author analyses examples of these wedding songs considering the themes and structures of their texts, the different ways in which the stanzas are organized, especially the serial and the accumulative structures.
Contributor Notes
Susana Weich-Shahak was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in Israel since 1958. She completed her PhD (The Music of Four Indian Tribes of the Peruvian Amazon) at Tel Aviv University. Since 1974 Weich-Shahak has carried out research on the musical repertoire of Sephardi Jews, undertaking field work in Israel and Sephardi communities abroad (recordings catalogued at the National Sound Archives, Israel National Library).