The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship (American Musicspheres)

By Jeffrey A. Summit.

The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship (American Musicspheres)

Description

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 worshippers define and re-define their relationship to the continuity of Jewish tradition and the realities of American life. Combining oral history with an analysis of recordings, The Lord's Song in a Strange Land examines this tradition incontemporary Jewish worship and explores the diverse links between the music and both spiritual and cultural identities. Alive with detail, the book focuses on metropolitan Boston...

ISBN(s)

0195161815, 9780195161816

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