July 30, 2010
Musica Judaica Online Reviews (MJOR)
The American Society of Jewish Music announces official release of MUSICA JUDAICA ONLINE REVIEWS, which has been operating under the Editorship of Dr. Judah M. Cohen of Indiana University since the beginning of the year.Designed as an offshoot of Musica Judaica, the Society's journal which is published once a year, Musica Judaica Online Reviews (MJOR) not only allows us to publish reviews much closer to the publication date of the book or recording in question, but also guarantees a much wider circulation and distribution of the reviews, to all who are interested what is being written about in Jewish music. Moreover, at the same time, our goal is not only to share the reviews but to engage in discussion, with readers able to submit their comments (of course, moderated by our editor).
Reviews, on a broad variety of topics, ranging, for example, from "The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture" by Tina Frȕhauf, to "The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor" by Judah M. Cohen, to "Jews, Race, and Popular Culture" by Jon Stratton, to name but a few, have already been posted on the MJOR website, with more to come this summer.
To subscribe to Musica Judaica Online Reviews, please visit its special website: http://www.mjoreviews.org . Your free subscription will allow you automatically receive e-mail notices of new reviews as they are posted on the site.
The publication of books about Jewish music is prolific. The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM) is taking an leading role, and a variety of approaches, in disseminating information about them. Through Musica Judaica Online Reviews, the journal, the Jewish Music Forum, concerts and other projects and activities, the American Society for Jewish Music continues to provide important access to the field of Jewish music in all its aspects.
Posted by jmwc at July 30, 2010 12:40 PM