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SUMMARY:Song of Exile: The Enduring Mystery of Psalm 137
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 David Stowe, Interim Chair and Professor, Department 
 of English, MSU\n
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 Oft-referenced and 
 frequently set to music, Psalm 137 (which begins 
 "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, 
 yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion")has 
 become something of a cultural touchstone 
 for music and religion across the Atlantic world. 
 This psalm set to song has been a top single 
 more than once in the twentieth century. 
 Stowe locates Psalm 137's use in the American 
 Revolution and the Civil Rights Movement, and 
 internationally by anti-colonial Jamaican 
 Rastafari and immigrants from Ireland, Korea, 
 and Cuba. Studying musical references ranging 
 from the Melodians' Rivers of Babylon to the 
 score of the Kazakh film Tulpan, Stowe also 
 explores the presence and absence in modern 
 culture of the often-ignored final words: "Happy 
 shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy 
 little ones against the stones." Based on numerous 
 interviews with musicians, theologians, 
 and writers, Stowe reconstructs the rich and 
 varied history of this widely used, yet mysterious, 
 Hebrew text. \n
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 Co-sponsored by the 
 Department of English, Department of Religious 
 Studies, and James Madison College.\n
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 Price: free and open to the public\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://events.msu.edu/jewishstudies/\n
 Contact name: Jewish Studies\n
 Contact phone: (517) 432-3493\n
 Contact email: jewishst@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Wells Hall B-342
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