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A Season of Singing - Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States (Hardcover)
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A Season of Singing - Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States (Hardcover)
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In the 1960s, Jewish music in America began to evolve. Traditional
liturgical tunes developed into a blend of secular and sacred sound
that became known in the 1980s as "American Nusach." Chief among
these developments was the growth of feminist Jewish songwriting.
In this lively study, Sarah M. Ross brings together scholarship on
Jewish liturgy, U.S. history, and musical ethnology to describe the
multiple roots and development of feminist Jewish music in the last
quarter of the twentieth century. Focusing on the work of prolific
songwriters such as Debbie Friedman, Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael,
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel, and Linda Hirschhorn, this volume
illuminates the biographies and oeuvres of innovators in the field,
and shows how this new musical form arose from the rich contexts of
feminism, identity politics, folk music, and Judaism. In addition
to providing deep content analysis of individual songs, Ross
examines the feminist Jewish music scene across the United States,
the reception of this music, challenges to disseminating the music
beyond informal settings, and the state of Jewish music publishing.
Rounding out the picture of the transformation of Jewish music, the
volume contains appendixes of songs and songwriters a selection of
musical transcriptions of feminist Jewish songs, and a
comprehensive discography. This book will interest scholars and
students in the fields of American Jewish history, women's studies,
feminism, ethnomusicology, and contemporary popular and folk music.
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