Singing God's Words
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-049708-8 (ISBN)
This book examines why and how growing numbers of American Jews in all denominations see the public chanting of Biblical texts during the synagogue service as one of the most authentic and personal expressions of their religious identity. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with men and women, both professionals and congregants, Jeffrey A. Summit describes how the reading of Torah embodies their understanding of historical religious practice, even as it is shaped by contemporary views of spiritual experience. Through this act, holiness becomes manifest at the intersection of Biblical chant, sacred text, the individual, and the community.
Jeffrey A. Summit is Research Professor in the Department of Music and Judaic Studies at Tufts University, where he also serves as rabbi and Neubauer Executive Director of Tufts Hillel. He is the author of The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship (OUP). His CD Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda was nominated for a Grammy Award.
1. Introduction
PART I
The Tradition
2. Chanting Torah
3. The Torah Service and the Re-creation of Revelation
4. Performing Community
PART II
The Individual and the Experience of Chanting Torah
5. Singing Your Way into Sacred Space
6. The Same Act: Many Levels of Experience
7. Women Reading Torah
PART III
The Performance
8. The Power of Music in the Transmission of Torah
9. Music and the Interpretation of Meaning
PART IV
Torah and Technology
10. The Transmission of Tradition in a Digital Age
11. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Appendix: Musical Notation and Graphic Symbols of Torah Trope
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.07.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | American Musicspheres |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-049708-4 / 0190497084 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-049708-8 / 9780190497088 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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