Hip-Hop Thrives in Israel

(Central/Eastern European) backgrounds. (Rolling Stone) Observations: - Loolwa Khazzoom The tenth anniversary celebration of hip-hop in Israel took place July 3rd in Tel Aviv. Israeli youth are mass consumers of Hebrew hip-hop, a music genre that cuts across lines of ethnicity not only between Arabs and Jews, but within the Jewish community itself - featuring artists from Ethiopian, Mizrahi (Middle Eastern/North African), Sephardic (Spanish-Portuguese and Latin), and Ashkenazi


2003-07-11 00:00:00

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