The Making Of A Reform Jewish Cantor

Author : Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045487
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor written by Judah M. Cohen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century. How do aspiring cantors adapt traditional musical forms to the practices of contemporary American congregations? What is the cantor's role in American Jewish religious life today? Cohen follows cantorial students at the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College, over the course of their training, as they prepare to become modern Jewish musical leaders. Opening a window on the practical, social, and cultural aspects of aspiring to musical authority, this book provides unusual insights into issues of musical tradition, identity, gender, community, and high and low musical culture.

Author : Judah M. Cohen
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Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Author : Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045479
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor written by Judah M. Cohen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century. How do aspiring cantors adapt traditional musical forms to the practices of contemporary American congregations? What is the cantor's role in American Jewish religious life today? Cohen follows cantorial students at the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College, over the course of their training, as they prepare to become modern Jewish musical leaders. Opening a window on the practical, social, and cultural aspects of aspiring to musical authority, this book provides unusual insights into issues of musical tradition, identity, gender, community, and high and low musical culture.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476635587
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cantor William Sharlin written by Jonathan L. Friedmann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Sharlin (1920-2012) was a cantor, synagogue composer, teacher and musicologist. Raised in an Orthodox household, he turned toward Universalism and the liberal Reform movement. A member of the first graduating class of the first cantorial school in America, he was a founding member of the American Conference of Cantors and is recognized as the first to play a guitar in the synagogue. Sharlin developed the Department of Sacred Music at HUC in Los Angeles, where he taught for 40 years, trained women to be cantors before they were allowed in the seminary, and spent nearly four decades at Leo Baeck Temple. Drawing on interviews conducted with Sharlin late in life, the author chronicles the career of one of the most inventive and creative figures in the history of the cantorate.

Author : Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253040248
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America written by Judah M. Cohen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen’s careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from seeing a fallow musical landscape, Cohen finds that Central European Jews in the United States spearheaded a major revision of the sounds and traditions of synagogue music during this period of rapid liturgical change. Focusing on the influences of both individuals and texts, Cohen demonstrates how American Jewish musicians sought to balance artistry and group singing, rather than "progressing" from solo chant to choir and organ. Congregations shifted between musical genres and practices during this period in response to such factors as finances, personnel, and communal cohesiveness. Cohen concludes that the "soundtrack" of 19th-century Jewish American music heavily shapes how we look at Jewish American music and life in the first part of the 21st-century, arguing that how we see, and especially hear, history plays a key role in our understanding of the contemporary world around us. Supplemented with an interactive website that includes the primary source materials, recordings of the music discussed, and a map that highlights the movement of key individuals, Cohen’s research defines more clearly the sound of 19th-century American Jewry.

Author : Jeremiah Lockwood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520396448
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Golden Ages written by Jeremiah Lockwood and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Golden Ages is an ethnographic study of young singers in the contemporary Brooklyn Hasidic community who base their aesthetic explorations of the culturally intimate space of prayer on the gramophone-era cantorial golden age. Jeremiah Lockwood proposes a view of their work as a nonconforming social practice that calls upon the sounds and structures of Jewish sacred musical heritage to disrupt the aesthetics and power hierarchies of their conservative community, defying institutional authority and pushing at normative boundaries of sacred and secular. Beyond its role as a desirable art form, golden age cantorial music offers aspiring Hasidic singers a form of Jewish cultural productivity in which artistic excellence, maverick outsider status, and sacred authority are aligned.

Author : Bruce L. Ruben
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814336671
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Max Lilienthal written by Bruce L. Ruben and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate.

Author : Nadia Valman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113504855X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures written by Nadia Valman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook to Contemporary Jewish Cultures explores the diversity of Jewish cultures and ways of investigating them, presenting the different methodologies, arguments and challenges within the discipline. Divided into themed sections, this book considers in turn: How the individual terms "Jewish" and "culture" are defined, looking at perspectives from Anthropology, Music, Literary Studies, Sociology, Religious Studies, History, Art History, and Film, Television, and New Media Studies. How Jewish cultures are theorized, looking at key themes regarding power, textuality, religion/secularity, memory, bodies, space and place, and networks. Case studies in contemporary Jewish cultures. With essays by leading scholars in Jewish culture, this book offers a clear overview of the field and offers exciting new directions for the future.

Author : Daniel B. Syme
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why I Am a Reform Jew written by Daniel B. Syme and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fresh and compelling work, Rabbi Daniel Syme traces the history of the Reform movement from a unique perspective, telling how generations of his own family have been intimately connected with the movement's flowering in the United States and Canada.

Author : Judah M. Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304023X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America written by Judah M. Cohen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of synagogue music in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century “sets a high standard for historical musicology” (Musica Judaica). In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-nineteenth century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen’s careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from seeing a fallow musical landscape, Cohen finds that Central European Jews in the United States spearheaded a major revision of the sounds and traditions of synagogue music during this period of rapid liturgical change. Focusing on the influences of both individuals and texts, Cohen demonstrates how American Jewish musicians sought to balance artistry and group singing, rather than “progressing” from solo chant to choir and organ. Congregations shifted between musical genres and practices during this period in response to such factors as finances, personnel, and communal cohesiveness. Cohen concludes that the “soundtrack” of nineteenth-century Jewish American music heavily shapes how we look at Jewish American music and life in the first part of the twenty-first century, arguing that how we see, and especially hear, history plays a key role in our understanding of the contemporary world around us. Supplemented with an interactive website that includes the primary source materials, recordings of the music discussed, and a map that highlights the movement of key individuals, Cohen’s research defines more clearly the sound of nineteenth-century American Jewry.