The Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Subtitle: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship Book and CD (American Musicspheres)
Edition: Har/Com edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195116779
Subjects: Jewish studies; Sacred & religious music; Worship; c 1990 to c 2000; Ethnomusicology; Sacred Music; Religion; Religion - Judaism; Music; USA; History & Criticism - General; Judaism - Rituals & Practice; Religious - Jewish; Music / Religious / Jewish; Prayerbooks - Jewish; Boston; History and criticism; Jews; Judaism; Liturgy; Massachusetts; Synagogue music
First sentence: There are Jews in every denomination who venerate worship traditions as if they had been passed down from God to Moses on Mount Sinai.