- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (30 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0313280355
- ISBN-13: 978-0313280351
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,962,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The purpose of this book is to present a survey of Jewish music to illuminate its special role as a mirror of history, tradition, and cultural heritage. The 27 topical chapters have been placed within a modified chronological perspective to present a historic picture of virtually every important development in Jewish music. The book represents a culmination of several decades of the author's dedicated labor and scholarly study in this field.
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The title Passport to Jewish Music is, in my opinion, a misnomer. Or perhaps I didn't understand the author's meaning when I ordered the book. As well as historical material, most of which shows how American cantorial music was affected, there is quite a lot that is bibliographic such as sections devoted to Abraham Z. Idelsohn & Gershon Ephros (cantors and researchers), Leonard Bernstein, Berlin, Gershwin, Ernest Bloch and Offenbach to name a few. The writing is often interesting but the main reason I have not given more stars is because this is the only book I have read on music without a single written note. For example statements such as:
"The cultural legacy of Judeo-Spanish folk song has best preserved the history of Iberian-Judaism. That music was created and appreciated during the old "golden" times, where it has been preserved and cherished. Those distinctive melodies and Ladino poetics echo with old Castilian, Aragonese, Catalonian, and Andalusian tunes and folklore. Scholars of Spanish history study them for information about the culture of Old Spain."
While there is a reference to a possible source to see the actual music, I would very much have liked to have seen at least a small sample.
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