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Music in Jewish History and Culture. By Emanuel Rubin and John H. Baron. (Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music.) Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2006. [xxvi, 403 p. ISBN 0-89990-133-6. $70.] Illustrations, music examples, tables, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index.
"What is Jewish Music?" This key question opening a door into the impossible--one cannot afford to ignore the question in such a book, nor can one answer it with adequate clarity or consistency--is the subtitle of the "Prelude" that precedes the first chapter of Emanuel Rubin and John Baron's Music in Jewish History and Culture (p. xxiii). This author is tempted to answer ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Music in Jewish History and Culture.(Book review)