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Article: Music in Lubavitcher Life. (Cultural Topics).
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Music in Lubavitcher Life. By Ellen Koskoff. (Music in American Life.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. (225 p. ISBN 0-252-02591-1. $39.95.]
The Hasidic rebbe (spiritual tcacher) Hillel of Parichi, Byelorussia, is reputed to have said, "Whoever has no sense for music has no sense for Hasidism." Ellen Koskoff's research, conducted over a twenty-two-year period with three Lubavitcher communities, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the central role music plays in contemporary Hasidic life. Her work focuses on nigunim, "a body of paraliturgical, folk and popular melodies" repetitive in nature and sung to vocables or simple text, ...