1st Edition
Christian Music in Jerusalem The First Two Thousand Years
Introduction
PART I. OBSERVATIONS AND FIELD STUDIES
Chapter 1. Music of Places and Music of Communities
Chapter 2. Christian Music in Israel: Documentation and Preservation
Chapter 3. Studies on Local Christian Music and Related Topics
PART II. INSIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS
Chapter 4. Music of Local Churches: Frameworks, Sounds, Identities
Chapter 5. Discoveries from Longitudinal Studies
Chapter 6. Intra-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspective
Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Alexander Rosenblatt is a harpsichordist and musicologist and currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Literature, Art, and Music at Zefat Academic College, Israel. He holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2013). He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2013–2014); visiting researcher at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, BC, Canada (2021); and visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2023). Dr Rosenblatt is a member of ICTMD (International Council for Traditional Music and Dance) since 2012; is an active member of the Israel Musicological Society and was its chairman from 2017 to 2019; and is a board member of FoMRFI (Fellowship of Makers and Researchers of Historical Instruments, Oxford, UK). His research areas include music and sociocultural issues, music of Christian worship, and the anthropology of art and music. He has authored several books and published scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals.
