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The ′ugliness′ of Jewish prayer: Voice quality as the expression of identity

Author(s) -

Judit Fridjesi

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

muzikologija

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2406-0976

pISSN - 1450-9814

DOI - 10.2298/muz0707099f

Subject(s) - prayer , judaism , identity (music) , musical , history , ancient history , expression (computer science) , art , religious studies , literature , aesthetics , philosophy , archaeology , computer science , programming language

This article is based on the musical material and interviews the author collected in Hungary, France, Czechoslovakia, the USA and Israel in the course of thirty years of her fieldwork among the traditional East-Ashkenazi Jews. It relates to the aesthetic concepts of the prayer chant of the Ashkenazi Jews of East Europe (′East -Ashkenazim′) as it appears to have existed before World War II, survived in the oral tradition until the 1970s and exists sporadically up to the present

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