Popular music in Israel has recently seen a surge in the use of Arabic in music made by Israeli-Jewish musicians. Most of these, although descendants of immigrants from Arab countries, never acquired Arabic at home or in school, owing to national ideology which sought to label Arabic as the language of the non-Jewish other. This article reveals and contextualises this recent trend, offering a typology of the ways in which musicians engage with Arabic, their motivations for doing so and the challenges that they face. Discussing musicians who approach Arabic as Jewish heritage, as an aesthetic repository, or even as mere sound, we identify these mobilisations of Arabic as postvernacular uses of language, which often privilege its non-semantic qualities. Observed in the context of Israeli–Arab enmity, this trend appears to have emerged surprisingly not in spite of, but partly because of, the decline in peace prospects.

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听起来阿拉伯语：以色列犹太人在流行音乐中表演阿拉伯语的后本土模式

以色列的流行音乐最近在以色列犹太音乐家制作的音乐中使用阿拉伯语激增。这些人中的大多数虽然是来自阿拉伯国家的移民的后裔，但由于民族意识形态试图将阿拉伯语标记为非犹太人的其他语言，因此从未在家中或学校学习过阿拉伯语。本文揭示了这一最新趋势并将其背景化，提供了音乐家与阿拉伯语互动的方式、他们这样做的动机以及他们面临的挑战的类型学。讨论将阿拉伯语视为犹太遗产、美学宝库甚至仅仅是声音的音乐家，我们将阿拉伯语的这些动员确定为语言的后白话使用，这通常优先考虑其非语义品质。在以色列和阿拉伯敌对的背景下观察到，