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Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America - Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack (Paperback)
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Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America - Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack (Paperback)
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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.
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