Music in Lubavitcher Life
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Drawing on twenty years of close study, Ellen Koskoff illuminates the world of the Lubavitcher Hasidim, a community of ultra-orthodox Jews centered in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Her classic ethnography offers an unprecedented look at nigunim, a body of paraliturgical, folk, and popular melodies that Lubavitchers regard as a primary form of spiritual communication with the divine. Along with vivid descriptions of musical performance in religious contexts and private gatherings, Koskoff details the musical sounds and structures that symbolize Lubavitcher social relations. In particular, she examines the differences between Lubavitcher women's and men's music making and the underlying beliefs and assumptions that give rise to gendered musical behaviors, such as the dictum that prohibits men from hearing a woman sing. Insightful and distinctive, Music in Lubavitcher Life combines anecdotes with history and musical analysis to reveal music making among the Lubavitchers as a gateway to their ideas about the nature of human spirituality, human social interaction, and God.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252025911
ISBN13:9780252025914
Release Date:November 2000
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.08 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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