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Jeffrey A. Summit. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Wors...

Jeffrey A. Summit. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Wors...

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Jeffrey A. Summit. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship. American Musicspheres. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii, 203 pp

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Jeffrey A. Summit. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship. American Musicspheres. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii, 203 pp

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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

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AJS Review, 2003, Vol.27 (2), p.360-361

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English

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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

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With few exceptions, classical study of Jewish liturgy has focused on the words of the prayers, largely ignoring the less tangible elements of setting, gesture, halakhic guidance, and music. When scholars like Eric Werner and A. Z. Idelsohn wrote about liturgical music, they, too, considered it a text. In recent years, and influenced by trends in t...

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Jeffrey A. Summit. The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship. American Musicspheres. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii, 203 pp

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_195825671

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_195825671

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0364-0094

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1475-4541

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10.1017/S0364009403420126

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