Negotiation of Musical Remembrance within Jewish Ritual Performance in Prague's Old-New Synagogue

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.14456/jucr.2018.3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.14456/jucr.2018.3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14456/jucr.2018.3" target="_blank" >10.14456/jucr.2018.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Negotiation of Musical Remembrance within Jewish Ritual Performance in Prague's Old-New Synagogue

Original language description

Prague&apos;s Jewish Town has become an important site of remembering for both Jewish and non-Jewish visitors. This ethnographic case study aims to show that global flows of people influence the sound of the ritual in the legendary, medieval Old-New Synagogue in Prague, where multiple Jewish cohorts negotiate their ways of remembering. Based on the understanding of remembrance as socially constructed in the present and of music as a reflection, as well as co-creator of social reality, the essay reveals certain aspects of the social process of negotiation of music remembrance within ritual performance (as observed, e.g., in the case of a strategic choice of the tune of the Lekhah dodi hymn in Friday evening service). As specific melodic motifs and tunes within the Ashkenazi ritual chant system and its local traditions are understood as symbols, &apos;melodic codes&apos;, bearing specific spatial and temporal connotations and other meanings recognizable by insiders, they become both the &apos;subject&apos; and the &apos;means of remembering&apos; - the performative means of establishing certain imagined culturally specific continuities from the past in the present.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Urban Culture Research

ISSN

2228-8279

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Jan-Jun

Country of publishing house

TH - THAILAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

44-62

UT code for WoS article

000436323600004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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