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

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Across the US, Jews come together each and every week to sing and pray in all kinds of worship communities. Through this music, made by and for peculiar 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 Bizarre 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 makes a speciality of 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 frequently shared, where sources can also be 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.

The Lord’s Song in a Bizarre Land is the first volume in Oxford’s new American Musicspheres series. Featuring a CD of field recordings for a few of the songs discussed, the book will prove an invaluable guide for a variety of scholars and students of ethnomusicology and religion.

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