The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land
Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20006401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey A Summit (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 203 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Lord's song in a strange land (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195116779.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388342308 |
| Open Library | OL15490381M |
| ISBN | 9780195116779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
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
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Folk music · Haskalah · Jewish music · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Melody · Musical · Musical form · Popular music · Theology · Variety (cybernetics) · Visual arts · Worship · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Boston · History and criticism · Instruction & Study · Jews · Judaism, liturgy · Juifs · Liturgy · Massachusetts · Music · Musique · Musique synagogale · Synagogue music · Synagogue music, history and criticism · Theory · united states
Peripheries and interfaces
Singing praise in the streets
Jewish Music and Modernity
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Singing in Hebrew or Reading in English? An Ethnographic Analysis of Music and Change Among Progressive Jews in the UK
In Concert and Alone
Sound and American Religions
Habitus Formation Through Contemporary Worship Music in Two Church Cases
Musical Boundary-Work
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |