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Singing God’s Words American Musicspheres Series Editor Mark Slobin Fiddler on the Move Exploring the Klezmer World Mark Slobin Four Parts, No Waiting A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony Gage Averill The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship Jeffrey A. Summit Louisiana Hayride Radio and Roots Music Along the Red River Tracey E. W. Laird Polkabilly How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music James P. Leary Lydia Mendoza’s Life in Music Yolanda Broyles- González Balkan Fascination Creating an Alternative Music Culture in America Mirjana Laušević Cajun Breakdown The Emergence of an American-M ade Music Ryan André Brasseaux Claiming Diaspora Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural Politics in Asian/ Chinese America Su Zheng Bright Star of the West Joe Heaney, Irish Song Man Sean Williams and Lillis Ó Laire Romani Routes Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora Carol Silverman Voices from the Canefields Folksongs from Japanese Immigrant Workers in Hawai’i Franklin Odo Greeted With Smiles Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York Evan Rapport Resounding Afro Asia Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration Tamara Roberts SINGING GOD’S WORDS The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism Jeffrey A. Summit 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Summit, Jeffrey A. Title: Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism / Jeffrey A. Summit. Description: New York : Oxford University Press [2016] | Series: American musicspheres | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015035935 | ISBN 9780199844081 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780190497088 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Jews—Music—History and criticism. | Judaism—Liturgy. Classification: LCC ML3195 .S97 2016 | DDC 782.3/6—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035935 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by WebCom, Inc., Canada All photographs courtesy of Richard Sobol. Contents About the Companion Website vii 1. Introduction 1 Part I. The Tradition 2. Chanting Torah 41 3. The Torah Service and the Re-c reation of Revelation 59 4. Performing Community 87 Part II. The Individual and the Experience of Chanting Torah 5. Singing Your Way into Sacred Space 107 6. The Same Act: Many Levels of Experience 125 7. Women Reading Torah 143 Part III. The Performance 8. The Power of Music in the Transmission of Torah 161 9. Music and the Interpretation of Meaning 186 Part IV. Torah and Technology 10. The Transmission of Tradition in a Digital Age 215 11. Conclusion 240 Appendix: Musical Notation and Graphic Symbols of Torah Trope 247 Notes 259 Bibliography 275 Index 285 About the Companion Website www.oup.com/ us/ singinggodswords A website accompanies Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism. On the site, the reader will find recordings of Torah and haftarah cantillation. The site also presents links to a range of examples from congregations, institutions and individuals for well- known tunes that are sung in the Torah service, cross- denominationally. The site also provides an expanded list of acknowledgments, naming all of the women and men who were interviewed for this book, as well as listing my undergraduate and graduate students at Tufts University who were actively engaged in this research. Singing God’s Words
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