Golden Ages: Hasidic Singers and Cantorial Revival in the Digital Era

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Golden Ages is an ethnographic study of young singers in the contemporary Brooklyn Hasidic community who base their aesthetic explorations of the culturally intimate space of prayer on the gramophone—era cantorial golden age. Jeremiah Lockwood proposes a view of their work as a nonconforming social practice that calls upon th...