[HANASHIR:5120] Re: Jewish Music reference book

[Judah Cohen <jcohen...>]

The Idelsohn book is published through Dover Publications (the king of 
inexpensive reprints), and is available pretty much anywhere.

Some other really good (and more recent!) books and articles I'd recommend
(excuse the quick referencing.   If you need any more information, I'll
provide it):

Mark Slobin: Chosen Voices:  The History of the American Cantorate (1989),
and Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrans (1982).  Both
University of Illinois Press.

Kay Kaufman Shelemay:  A Song of Longing (a very accessible book about her
musical research in the Ethiopian Jewish Community), and Let Jasmine Rain
Down (1998, University of Chicago Press; Finalist for the Jewish Book
Award), about music and memory among Syrian Jews.

Theodore Levin:  The Hundred Thousand Fools of God:  Musical Travels in
Central Asia (And Queens, New York) (1996, Indiana University Press):
Especially the last chapter on Jewish Central Asian Musicians in Queens, NY.

Moshe Shokeid:  Children of Circumstances:  Israeli Emigrants in New York.
(Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1988).  The last Chapter, on the music
of the Israeli immigrants, is wonderful.

Jeffrey Summit:  "'I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy?': Identity and Melody at an
American Simhat Torah Celebration."  Ethnomusicology (journal), v. 37 #1
(Winter, 1994?); 41-62.  A great discussion about using American melodies in
the Simhat Torah celebration at the Tremont Street Shul in Cambridge, MA.

Good luck!
Judah.
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>From: "janeen kobrinsky" <janeen (at) kobrinsky(dot)com>
>To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: [HANASHIR:5119] Re: Jewish Music reference book
>Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2000, 5:41 PM
>

> you can get it from tara at www.jewishmusic.com
> janeen
>
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> From: <Chazzzan (at) aol(dot)com>
> To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 4:09 PM
> Subject: [HANASHIR:5118] Re: Jewish Music reference book
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>
>> Joanna, where can we get this book?
>>
>> Brian Serle
>>
>

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