Review by mara_miriam - The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"

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The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light

3.0

While I tired of the endless iteration of maudlin uses of this song that I love and the excessive number of recent covers, this was a really clever approach to a cultural marker. The book was most successful when profiling the seminal performers, in addition to detailing the multiple symbolical and cultural meanings of the lyrics and the song itself.