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Responsorial Singing
“Call and response,” “responsive,” or “responsorial” is a singing performance style in…

Khosid/Khosidl (LKT)
… are included in the source. By clicking on the bibliographic hyperlink at the end of each citation, you get the … speed the rhythm by the accompanying accordion and trap set seems more like a khosidl.” Phillips 1996a, pp. …
Chasidic in America
… Cantor's Son was released. The film, considered an autobiographical take on Oysher's life, is about the son of a cantor … of the Passover seder , fusing them with hip-hop beats, rap, and various archival recordings. His version of … show God's Greatest Hits, SoCalled gave a brief biographical introduction to Oysher, which was followed by a …
Hora
Origin of the term
The word originates from Rumanian. As an ancient term it meant a…

«A Special Kind of Antisemitism»: On Russian Nationalism and Jewish Music
In 1958, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk…

Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
Portrayed by Readers' Digest as 'a top ranking composer;' in Christian…
Contrafactum
A term borrowed from medieval Christianity. It refers to a technique of converting…
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… of this nature occur, so it does not appear to be a typographical convention of the book. If it is intentional, …
Book review: James Kaplan, Irving Berlin: New York Genius
… Press, 2019. If you want a bog-standard show-biz biography of Irving Berlin — chattily written, without … for you. Berlin died in 1989 at the age of 101. A ‘biography’ of sorts by his friend Alexander Woollcott, a version … any more than for Kaplan’s speculation about the photograph of Berlin allegedly aged 13, of which no copy is shown …