Music in Lubavitcher Life (Music in American Life)
By Ellen Koskoff.
Description
"Music in Lubavitcher Life" illuminates the world of the Lubavitcher Hasidim, a community of ultra-orthodox Jews centered in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Drawing primarily on twenty years of close study of the Lubavitcher community, Ellen Koskoff combines lively anecdotes with historical background 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.Lubavitcher music centers on the nigunim, a body of paraliturgical, folk, and popular melodies tha...
ISBN(s)
0252025911, 9780252025914
