Jeremiah Lockwood is an interdisciplinary scholar and composer embracing ethnographic, archival, and performative methods in researching Jewish liturgical music. His recent Ph.D. dissertation from Stanford University and current book project focuses on 21st century Chassidic revival of “golden age” cantorial music. Lockwood explores how Jewish prayer music functions as a means of anti-conformist social action. In an ISM Fellows project employing both research and composition, Lockwood’s “In di vayber shul/In the Women’s Synagogue: Female Voices and the Construction of Gender in Jewish Sacred Music” will trace the suppression of women’s voices in early 20th century synagogue music, the role of women cantors as stars of Jewish mass media, and the appropriation of the feminine into the masculine cantorial voice.
