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""Drawing upon ethnomusicology and social theory, Traders, Chanters and Mystics shows the significance of reading from Torah scrolls to Maghribi Jews in France. A vibrant portrait of this lived ritual complex emerges from within circles of interaction surrounding it.""--Harvey E. Goldberg, author of Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life

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ILANA WEBSTER-KOGEN is the Joe Loss Reader in Jewish Music at SOAS, University of London, where she is Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Her first book, Citizen Azmari: Making Ethiopian Music in Tel Aviv, won the Society for Ethnomusicology's Jewish Music section publication prize. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Ethnomusicology Forum, Contemporary Jewry, and theJournal of African Cultural Studies.

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