Klezmer : music, history and memory / Walter Zev Feldman.

Format:

Archive

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Walter, author.

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.

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

Freedman, Molly (donor) (Freedman copy).

Local Subjects:

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

Freedman, Molly (donor) (Freedman copy).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 412 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Part 1 The Klezmer Profession: Social and Artistic Function

1 The Music of the Klezmer Within East Ashkenazic Music 31

2 What's in a Name? The Word Klezmer and Jewish Professional Musicians 59

3 The Klezmer Ensemble 99

4 The Role of Russia in the Study of Klezmer Music 117

5 The Jewish Wedding and Its Musical Repertoire 137

6 East European Jewish Dance 163

Part 2 Genre and Style in Klezmer Music

7 The Genres and Repertoires of Klezmer Music 205

8 Moralishe Niggunim: the Musical Genres of the Wedding 215

9 Rhythmic Melody Among the Ashkenazim: Nign and Zmires 235

10 Old European Components in the Core Repertoire 249

11 The Sher: History and Choreography 261

12 North and South in Klezmer Music: Northern Redl and Southern Freylekhs 275

13 Skotshne and Freylekhs 299

14 The Khosidl at the Interface of Mystical and Secular Expression 315

15 The Bulgar: a Transnational Klezmer Dance Genre 347

16 Postlude: a Klezmer Legacy 367.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Freedman copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert and Molly Freedman.

ISBN:

9780190244514

OCLC:

941140523