. . . . . . . "Canadian"@en . . . . "B.A., English Literature, McGill University"@en . . . "There is a Spanish singer who claimed to be singing \"an eleventh century Sephardic lullaby\". Well, first of all, no one was writing down lullaby melodies \u2013 or almost any melodies except early church plainchant \u2013 in the eleventh century. And there was no such language as 'Spanish' then \u2013 much less Judeo-Spanish. The Judeo-Spanish of the songs people hear is a diaspora language."@en . "Judith R. Cohen"@en . . . . . . . . . . "66134167"^^ . . . "1100078776"^^ . . . . . . . . "true"@en . . . . . . . "lightyellow"@en . "1988"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Judith R. Cohen"@en . . . . . . . . "275"^^ . . . . . . . . . "27700"^^ . . "right"@en . . "ethnomusicologist, music educator, performer"@en . . . . "M.A., Medieval Studies, University of Montreal"@en . . . "B.F.A., Music, Concordia University"@en . . . "Judeo-Spanish Songs in the Sephardic Communities of Montreal and Toronto: Survival, Function and Change"@en . . . . "1949-12-09"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "\u2013Judith R. Cohen"@en . . "Judith Rita Cohen (born December 9, 1949) is a Canadian ethnomusicologist, music educator, and performer. Her research interests include Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) songs; medieval and traditional music from the Balkans, Portugal, French Canada, and Yiddish; pan-European balladry; and songs from Crypto-Jewish regions in Portugal. She has received numerous research and travel grants to do fieldwork in Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Israel, Turkey, Greece, France, Belgium, Canada, and the United States, and has published many journal articles, papers, and book chapters. She plays a variety of medieval musical instruments, and sings and performs as part of her lectures and in concerts and solo recitals. She is also the editor of the Alan Lomax Spanish collection maintained by the Association for Cultur"@en . . . . . "Judith R. Cohen"@en . . . . . . . . "Montreal, Quebec, Canada"@en . . . "right"@en . "Judith Rita Cohen (born December 9, 1949) is a Canadian ethnomusicologist, music educator, and performer. Her research interests include Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) songs; medieval and traditional music from the Balkans, Portugal, French Canada, and Yiddish; pan-European balladry; and songs from Crypto-Jewish regions in Portugal. She has received numerous research and travel grants to do fieldwork in Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Israel, Turkey, Greece, France, Belgium, Canada, and the United States, and has published many journal articles, papers, and book chapters. She plays a variety of medieval musical instruments, and sings and performs as part of her lectures and in concerts and solo recitals. She is also the editor of the Alan Lomax Spanish collection maintained by the Association for Cultural Equity."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Medieval music, Judeo-Spanish song, traditional music of the Balkans and French-Canada, pan-European balladry"@en . . . "1949-12-09"^^ . . . . . "PhD, Ethnomusicology, University of Montreal"@en . . . . . "Judith Rita Cohen"@en . . . . . .