Shalom, reader. Have you ever wondered about the fantastic world of Jewish music? No? Well now you’re about to get a little cultural lesson about the ins and outs of Jewish music. Trying to get a complete history of Jewish music is rather difficult so I’ll attempt to give you a shortened version. Jewish music can be studied from several diverse points of view, among them the historical, liturgical, and non-liturgical music of the Hebrew people bating back into ancient Egypt. Jewish music has its roots it the religious music at the first and second Solomon’s Temples, and musical activity for the Jewish people can be seen back as immediately following the Exodus and onwards into the early middle ages and beyond.
Today most contemporary Jewish music is made in Israel due to strong religious and cultural reasons that a Jewish state like Israel would have. Like many other religions and cultures around the world tradition is something that is still held in high regard to this very day. Modern Jewish music is as ever inspired by the Jewish music of decades or even centuries gone by. They have a very deep rooted connection, and despite the changes to the World and the faith since long ago Jewish music has remained a mainstay for them even in the darkest of times.
Jewish music doesn’t necessarily have to be rooted entirely in the religion itself, you don’t have to be orthodox or strictly get involved in Judaism to create what many would define as Jewish music. Many great composers in history have been from Jewish origin and even if they don’t actively participate in their religion their music is still influenced by the culture they grew up in. Jewish music can be defined very loosely or alternatively very tightly based on your own outlook on the issue, but regardless of that fact many can agree that the Jewish people have got a great many composers within their ranks. Many top songwriters even today are Jewish or of Jewish origin, so don’t you think that many of them owe their success to Jewish music?
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