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The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary - American Musicspheres : No.2

English · Paperback / Softback

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Across the United States, Jews come together every week to sing and pray in a wide variety of worship communities. Through this music, made by and for ordinary folk, these Jews define and re-define their relationship to the continuity of Jewish tradition and the realities of American life. Combining oral history and an analysis of recordings, The Lord's Song in a Strange Land examines the music in contemporary Jewish worship and explores the diverse links between the music and spiritual and cultural identities. Alive with detail, the book focuses on metropolitan Boston and covers the full range of Jewish communities there, from Hasidim to Jewish college students in a transdenominational setting. It documents a remarkably fluid musical tradition, where melodies are often shared, where sources can be as as diverse as Sufi chant, Christmas carols, rock and roll, and Israeli popular music, and where the meaning of a song can change from one block to the next.

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Authors Jeffrey A. Summit
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.05.2003
 
EAN 9780195161816
ISBN 978-0-19-516181-6
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 153 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
Series Print on Demand
Subject Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous

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