American Klezmer : its roots and offshoots / edited by Mark Slobin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Slobin, Mark.

Conference Name:

Klezmer Research Conference (1st : 1996 : Wesleyan University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Klezmer music--Congresses.

Klezmer music.

Jews--Music--Congresses.

Jews.

Jews--Music.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

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.

Contents:

American Klezmer: a brief history / Hankus Netsky

Klezmer-Ioshn: the language of Jewish folk musicians / Robert A. Rothstein

Di Rushishe progresiv Muzikal Yunyoun No. 1 fun Americke : the first Klezemer Union in America / James Leoffler

The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915-70 / Hankus Netsky

"All my life a musician": Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America / Michael Alpert

Bulgărescă, Bulgarish, Bulgar: the transformation of the Klezmer dance genre / Walter Zec Feldman

Sounds and sensibility / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

KlezKamp and the rise of Yiddish cultural literacy / Henry Sapoznik

Newish, not Jewish: a tale of two bands / Marion Jacobson

An insider's view: how we traveled from obscurity to the Klezmer establishment in twenty years / Frank London

Why we do this anyway: Klezmer as Jewish youth subculture / Alicia Svigals.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.

ISBN:

0520227174

0520227182

OCLC:

45223552