The book of klezmer : the history, the music, the folklore / Yale Strom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strom, Yale.

Contributor:

Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Klezmer music--History and criticism.

Klezmer music.

Jews--Music--History and criticism.

Jews.

Jews--Music.

Penn Provenance:

Freedman, Robert, 1929- (donor) (inscription) (Freedman copy)

Freedman, Molly (donor) (inscription) (Freedman copy)

Strom, Yale (autograph) (Freedman copy)

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 381 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : A Cappella, [2002]

Summary:

Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been reborn, with dozens of groups, often mixing klezmer with jazz or rock, gaining large followings throughout the world. "The Book of Klezmer" traces the music's entire history, making use of extensive documentary material; interviews with forgotten klezmorim as well as luminaries such as Theodore Bikel, Leonard Nimoy, Joel Grey, Andy Statman, and John Zorn; and dozens of illuminating, stirring, and previously unpublished photographs

Contents:

1 Fun David Ha-Melekh biz Duvid der Klezmer (From King David to Duvid the Klezmer) 1

2 Fun der Haskole biz Dem Khurbn (From the Enlightenment to the Holocaust) 49

3 Klezmer in der Naye Velt: 1880-1960 (Klezmer in the New World: 1880-1960) 143

4 Fun Zev biz Zorn: Di Bale-Kulturniks (From Zev to Zorn: The Masters of Culture) 187

Appendix 1 Klezmer Zikhroynes in di Yizker Bikher (Klezmer Memories in the Memorial Books) 267

Appendix 2 Klezmer Loshn (Klezmer Slang) 327

Appendix 3 Klezmer Nigunim (Klezmer Tunes) 343.

Notes:

With half-title.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-369) and index.

Includes discography (pages 371-374).

Local Notes:

Freedman copy with original wrappers.

ISBN:

1556524455

OCLC:

49225318