[HANASHIR:11213] Rabbi Jeff Summit

[Joshua Miller <jmiller...>]

Julia,

I don't recall Jeff Summit's name being mentioned on Hanashir previously, 
but I can tell you that he wrote an interesting book entitled "The Lord's 
Song in a Strange Land" with a huge section about congregational melody 
choices and case studies on several different congregations in the Boston 
area. The book even comes with a CD that has some fun melodies.

Rabbi Summit is the executive director at Tufts Hillel and serves as a 
professor in the Tufts Ethnomusicology department (and he's a talented 
songleader as well). The book should be available at Jewish bookstores, and 
I think it would be a great read for any songleader interested the role of 
music in Jewish culture. I heard Jeff give a lecture on this material about 
a year ago at Stanford University and found it really interesting. I'm not 
sure if those lecture notes are available on-line somewhere, but Jeff can 
be reached via email at jsummit (at) emerald(dot)tufts(dot)edu(dot)

Hope that helps!

- Josh Miller
   joshuamiller2003 (at) kellogg(dot)nwu(dot)edu

At 02:00 AM 3/27/02, you wrote:
>I've tried a Boolean search on the hanashir archives, but I still can't
>track down a recent (2-3 months ago) post.  Can anyone help me find a
>mention of a lecture given by ethnomusicologist Rabbi Jeff Summit on
>congregational melody choices?
>Thanks,
>Julia Priest

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