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9780520227170

American Klezmer

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520227170

  • ISBN10:

    0520227174

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

A collection of essays on various aspects of klezmer music in America, including its early history, its social role in Jewish communities, and its musical evolution. Several essays are devoted to the social and cultural implications of klezmer's vigorous recent revival.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(10)
Mark Slobin
PART ONE: ROOTS 11(116)
American Klezmer: A Brief History
13(11)
Hankus Netsky
Klezmer-loshn: The Language of Jewish Folk Musicians
24(11)
Robert A. Rothstein
Di Rusishe Progresiv Muzikal Yunyon No. 1 fun Amerike: The First Klezmer Union in America
35(17)
James Loeffler
The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915-70
52(21)
Hankus Netsky
``All My Life a Musician'': Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America
73(11)
Michael Alpert
Bulgareasca/Bulgarish/Bulgar: The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre
84(43)
Walter Zev Feldman
PART TWO: OFFSHOOTS 127(94)
Sounds of Sensibility
129(45)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
KlezKamp and the Rise of Yiddish Cultural Literacy
174(13)
Henry Sapoznik
Newish, Not Jewish: A Tale of Two Bands
187(19)
Marion Jacobson
An Insider's View: How We Traveled from Obscurity to the Klezmer Establishment in Twenty Years
206(5)
Frank London
Why We Do This Anyway: Klezmer as Jewish Youth Subculture
211(10)
Alicia Svigals
Sources 221(12)
Contributors 233(2)
Index 235

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