NEJS184b. Joshua Jacobson. The Music of the Jewish People.
An investigation into the roles that music has played in Jewish life from ancient to modern times, including music in the time of the Bible, Rabbinic attitudes, prayer and scriptural cantillation, music in the Diaspora, polyphony in the synagogue, Jewish concert music, music in the Holocaust, in modern Israel, and in 20th century America. Usually offered every third year.
http://www.brandeis.edu/
Jewish music course Music 224 (or Religion 224) offered through the music department. Interdisciplinary course traces musical traditions of world Jewry. Multicultural search for musical identity. Taught by Ofer Ben-Amots.
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/catalog_pdf/section4.pdf
Ethnomusicology: Seminar. Music 208r. Catalog Number: 2232. Kay Kaufman Shelemay.
Music in Jewish Religious and Cultural Life. Music’s role in expressing and maintaining Jewish identity.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/courses/courses98_99index.html#ugrad
The original KlezKamp! “KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program” (now having completed its 17th consecutive year)allows participants to learn Yiddish, klezmer music, Yiddish dance, culture, language and arts. The camp is usually held the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and recently has located to Cherry Hill, NJ. It’s an exciting week filled with music, dance, food, freilach and fun. Lots of interesting people attend to learn, be with family and friends, have a good time, just be Jewish or learn Yiddish culture. Everyone from frum to new age feel comfortable at KlezKamp, and a fascinating mix of people attend each year. Expert teachers for the music divisions with master classes for the advanced students. Adult and children’s activities and classes.
Henry Sapoznik, Director
Sherry Mayrent, Associate Director
Dan Peck, Operations
Cynthia Pierce, Office Manager
http://www.livingtraditions.org…
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SOAS University of London KlezFest London Annual Summer School (2004 dates 8-12 August) Now in its fourth year, KlezFest London has become the place to study the uplifting and poignant music, song and dance of Eastern European Jewish life. The faculty are all the very top musicians, singers and teachers from America and from Eastern Europe. They are the pioneers of the Klezmer Revival as well as the links to the past. Their knowledge and expertise conjure up the warm and intense Yiddish culture in dance classes, lectures, workshops, masterclasses, performances and jams from 9am till after midnight. The students – instrumentalists and singers of all ages and backgrounds – gather from all parts the world, brought together by a common passion for Jewish Music. There is expert tuition in instrumental and ensemble playing and for existing bands.
…Jewish Music MUSC333.
Tulane University Music Department. Dr. John Baron offers a survey of “Jewish sacred and secular music from Biblical times to the present. Considers music of the Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Yemenite, Israeli, Falasha, and American traditions.”
http://www.Tulane.edu
University of Chicago Jewish Studies College offers a course in Jewish music taught by Philip Bohlman.
http://www2.uchicago.edu/adm-registrar/an9798/jewstdc.html
MUH 3621 Jewish Art Music in Western Culture.
A cultural history of western art music inspired by Jewish subjects, Biblical and non-Biblical, composed by both Jewish and non-Jewish composers, and a survey of Jewish performing musicians from the Renaissance to the present.
http://www.reg.ufl.edu/99-20catalog/courses/music.html
