The rise of popular music in Israel through festivals and the participation in the Eurovision contests allows up to try mapping this multi-cultural soundscape in its multiple dimensions. More at http://musicinisrael.wordpress.com

1. mapping popular music in
israel
Week 11: From Sanremo to Tel Aviv (via Woodstock):
Pop, Mediterranean Culture, and America
Francesco Spagnolo | Music in Israel | UC Berkeley Fall 2013

2. globalization of Music in Israel
“Pop music” in the early days of the State (1950s)
Music festivals in Israel
Israeli participation in Eurovision song contests

3. globalization of Music in Israel
Sanremo popular song festival (“Festival della
Canzone Italiana, RAI, 1951)
Festival of Israeli Song (festival ha-zemer hayisraeli, by Israel Broadcasting Authority, 1960)
Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de
la chanson, European Broadcasting Union,
Lugano 1956
Israeli participation in Eurovision: since 1978

4. popular Song: Key elements
Melodic line
Refrain (chorus)
Rhythm
Vocal Style
Instrumentation/Arrangement

5. popular songs in Israel: Cultural
provenance
Jewish musical traditions
SLI (songs of the land of Israel)
East European popular music
Western (globalized) popular music: French
chanson, British/American rock, etc.
Music from the lands of Islam
Exotic (globalized) popular music: AfroCuban, Tango, Greek, Indian, etc.

6. permutational property
of (popular) music in Israel
of (popular) music in Israel
Jewish musical traditions
Melodic line
SLI (songs of the land of Israel)
Refrain (chorus)
East European popular music
Rhythm
Western (globalized) popular
music: French chanson,
British/American rock, etc.
Vocal Style
Instrumentation/A
rrangement
Music from the lands of Islam
Exotic (globalized) popular
music: Afro-Cuban, Tango,
Greek, Indian, etc.

7. permutative property
of (popular) music in Israel
of (popular) music in Israel
Jewish musical traditions
Melodic line
SLI (songs of the land of Israel)
Refrain (chorus)
East European popular music
Rhythm
Western (globalized) popular
music: French chanson,
British/American rock, etc.
Vocal Style
Instrumentation/A
rrangement
Music from the lands of Islam
Exotic (globalized) popular
music: Afro-Cuban, Tango,
Greek, Indian, etc.

8. permutational property
of (popular) music in Israel
of (popular) music in Israel
Jewish musical traditions
Melodic line
SLI (songs of the land of Israel)
Refrain (chorus)
East European popular music
Rhythm
Western (globalized) popular
music: French chanson,
British/American rock, etc.
Vocal Style
Instrumentation/A
rrangement
Music from the lands of Islam
Exotic (globalized) popular
music: Afro-Cuban, Tango,
Greek, Indian, etc.

9. permutational property
of (popular) music in Israel
of (popular) music in Israel
Jewish musical traditions
Melodic line
SLI (songs of the land of Israel)
Refrain (chorus)
East European popular music
Rhythm
Western (globalized) popular
music: French chanson,
British/American rock, etc.
Vocal Style
Instrumentation/A
rrangement
Music from the lands of Islam
Exotic (globalized) popular
music: Afro-Cuban, Tango,
Greek, Indian, etc.

10. can this complexity be “mapped”?
TRHEE TYPES OF LABYRINTH
1. Unicursal: from A to B (with Minotaur)
2. Broken paths: “tree of knowledge”
3. Network: all node can connect with all other
nodes (impossible to map)

11. labyrinth one: Knossos
From A to B: a line

12. labyrinth two: broken paths
The “tree of knowledge”

13. labyrinth two: broken paths
The “tree of knowledge”

14. labyrinth three: the web
MIT Technology Review: Mapping the Internet
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/408104/mapping-the-internet/