Jeffrey Shandler lecture, NYC, Mar 9
Friday, March 9, 2007 10:30AM to 12PM
"The Media and the Messenger: Transforming the Cantor's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Dr. Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Respondents: Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University,
and Dr. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University
Co-sponsor: Working Group on Jews/Media/Religion at the Center for Religion and Media, New York University
Location: The Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th St. New York, NY
This event is free and open to the public
Jeffrey Shandler will discuss American cantors' interactions with new media of the past century and how it has transformed their art and their stature as performers. Their engagement with sound recordings, sheet music, motion pictures, and radio and television broadcasting created new possibilities for cantors that tested the limits of their traditional role as shliah tsibur (communal messenger).