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Dispatches from Brooklyn

Jeremiah Lockwood

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Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow at Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Conversations: Dispatches from Brooklyn

Working with elder Chassidic women, musician and activist Ira Temple encountered transcendent possibilities and complicating limitations in attempting to construct a community centered on female musical desires and homosocial flourishing.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Rokhl Kafrissen’s Yiddish Utopia

In a surprising new reworking of a pop song in Yiddish, Rokhl Kafrissen illuminates the losses of memory implicated in Jewish American life and showcases her practices of reclamation centered on the sounds and stories of Yiddish culture.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Selichos in Borough Park

In the context of prayer leading, a cantor’s vulnerability and the susceptibility of the body to injury can become sources of strength, lending the cantor tools to interpret supplicatory prayer texts.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Heritage, Archives and Spirit Visitation: Two Old/New Artefacts from the Musical World of Eléonore Biezunski

With two new-old musical artefacts, musician and archivist Eléonore Biezunski bridges the phenomenon of constructing musical heritage, with its undercurrent of consumerist choice and fantasy fulfilment, to thornier structures of family history and personal experience.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Noah Schall: Part One

A conversation with elder cantorial pedagogue Noah Schall unfurls a parade of images and ideas about Jewish liturgical music, stemming from a lifetime immersed in the music.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Shoko Nagai’s Tokala: Mythologies and Fantasies in the Construction of a Global Music Scene

Shoko Nagai’s musical involvement with the culturally intimate space of the synagogue resonates in her fantasies about mythic pasts and their uses in constructing desired futures.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Yiddish New York: Between Archive, Performance, and Community (Pt. 1)

This first of two posts on Yiddish New York highlights one of the evening concerts hosted by the festival, titled “Oy, I Like They…A Queer Tribute to Aaron Lebedeff.”

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Yiddish New York: Between Archive, Performance, and Community (Pt. 2)

Part-2 about Yiddish New York highlights a new online archival research project which has garnered success in fostering musical community and new art projects.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: The Sauler Sisters: Gayna Kieval and Bianca Bergman

Daughters of a renowned cantor, these remarkable women worked within the parameters of their social world to create a lasting contribution to multiple musical communities.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Noah Schall: Part Two: “Development” in the Cantorial Recitative

In a discussion with an elder cantorial pedagogue, terms borrowed from Western musicology are transformed to suit the music of the synagogue.

Jeremiah Lockwood Research Fellow Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Dispatches from Brooklyn: Hadar Ahuvia and the Possibilities of Prayer

What are the possibilities, potentials and limitations in the creation of new Israeli culture that challenges norms when geographically located in the Diaspora?