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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies

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Reimagining Spiritual Experience and Music

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies November 20, 2023 Jeffrey A. Summit

Abstract: Leaning on Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook’s poem of the “fourfold song” as a typology of categories, this chapter examines music and spiritual experience in (liberal) Jewish worship in the United States in the twenty-first century. Kook’s four categories—the song of the self, the song of one’s people, the song of humanity, and the song of all existence—provide a structure to consider a...