Jewish Reform Folk Liturgy.

[Judah Cohen <jcohen...>]

>JEWISH REFORM FOLK LITURGY?????

Thanks for holding me to that.  Academia occasionally does silly things
like trying to reduce the real world to a term.  "Jewish Reform Folk
Liturgy" is a pretty good example.  What I mean is pretty much along the
lines of Raquel's explanation.  Though it is not my prerogative to say what
*is* and *is not* in this genre, the general guideline I have in my mind is:

Music of religious significance sung, taught, or led by a songleader (an
attendee of HaNashir, for example, or a subscriber to the HaNashir
listserv) in a religious setting (a service, for example).

I use "Reform" as part of the term because the Reform movement seems to be
a major supporter and cultivator of such songs (through the summer camps,
for example, or HaNashir).

This is very general, but I think it conveys the gist of what I'm looking
for pretty well.  I leave the extrapolating (and correcting) up to you.

Be well.

Judah.

Judah Cohen
Music Department
Harvard University
jcohen (at) fas(dot)harvard(dot)edu
(617) 628-4783

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