Home›Sources›Koskoff, "Music in Lubavitcher Life," University of Illinois Press, 2000SourcesKoskoff, "Music in Lubavitcher Life," University of Illinois Press, 2000Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Koskoff, "Music in Lubavitcher Life," University of Illinois Press, 2000." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/koskoff-music-in-lubavitcher-life-2000.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Koskoff, "Music in Lubavitcher Life," University of Illinois Press, 2000. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/koskoff-music-in-lubavitcher-life-2000Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-koskoff-music-in-lubavitcher-life-univer, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Koskoff, "Music in Lubavitcher Life," University of Illinois Press, 2000}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/koskoff-music-in-lubavitcher-life-2000}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXAn academic ethnomusicology monograph, read directly for this entry through its publisher's and reviewers' summaries rather than a full cover to cover reading. Its strength is that it is built from twenty two years of fieldwork inside three Lubavitcher communities, examining nigunim as the community's own primary form of musical and spiritual communication. Its limit for this entry specifically is that it treats Chabad music broadly rather than Daled Bavos alone, so it is cited here for the scholarly framing of nigun as a category rather than for facts unique to this one melody, which the Wikipedia source supplies instead. No publicly accessible full text URL was found for this book; it is cited to its publisher and publication year rather than a page.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (11 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Reliability tier 1: an academic monograph from University of Illinois Press, a scholarly publisher whose books pass peer review before print, the strongest available form for a claim about a community's musical practice.NotesWell-attestedAuthor Ellen Koskoff is Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, where she taught for forty years and served as Director of Ethnomusicology Programs. The monograph, drawn from twenty two years of fieldwork with Lubavitcher communities centered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, treats nigunim as a primary form of spiritual communication and examines how musical performance symbolizes Lubavitcher social relations, including gendered patterns of musical participation.CitationAuthorWell-attestedEllen KoskoffPublisherWell-attestedUniversity of Illinois PressPublication YearWell-attested2000Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographClaims Backed By This Source (11 claims)This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Musical Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested9ArticlesWhat Twenty Two Years of Listening FoundMusical WorksDaled Bavos (Niggun of Four Stanzas)SourcesKoskoff, "Music in Lubavitcher Life," University of Illinois Press, 2000General References2ArticlesWhat Twenty Two Years of Listening FoundMusical WorksDaled Bavos (Niggun of Four Stanzas)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year