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Informationen zum Autor Mark Slobin is Professor of Music at Wesleyan University and author of several books on Jewish and Central European music! including Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants (1992) and Exploring the Klezmer World (2000). Klappentext "Those who still maintain that the subject of klezmer music and klezmorim is too slight to merit serious scholarly inquiry should take a good look at this fine collection of essays. This book debunks certain misconceptions about klezmer. One is the long-held belief that practitioners of klezmer were quaint but musical illiterates. The other is that this is an effort to take a musical art form off the shelf to be preserved as a museum piece with little contemporary life of its own. I am also delighted by those sections that deal with the Yiddish verbal expression of the klezmer idiom. Klezmer is not just an avenue of maintaining cultural roots without the necessity of learning a language! as portions of this this book so well illustrate."-Theodore Bikel! recording artist and actor Zusammenfassung Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This work investigates American klezmer: its roots, its evolution, and its spirited revitalization. It focuses on the history of klezmer, using folkloric sources, records of early musicians unions, and interviews with immigrant musicians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction! Mark Slobin Part One: Roots 1. American Klezmer A Brief History Hankus Netsky 2. Klezmer-Loshn The Language of Jewish Folk Musicians Robert A. Rothstein 3. Di rusishe progresiv muzikal yunon no. 1 fun amerike The First Klezmer Union in America James B. Loeffler 4. The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia! 1915-70 Hankus Netsky 5. "All My Life a Musician" Ben Bazyler: A European Klezmer in America Michael Alpert 6. Bulgareasca/Bulgarish/Bulgar The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre Walter Z. Feldman Part Two: Offshoots 7. Sounds of Sensibility Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 8. Klezkamp and the Rise of Yiddish Cultural Literacy Henry Sapoznik 9. Newish! Not Jewish Reshaping Klezmer Musical Traditions Marion Jacobson 10. An Insider's View How We Traveled from Obscurity to the Klezmer Establishment in Twenty Years Frank London 11. Why We Do This Anyway Klezmer as Youth Subculture Alicia Svigals Works Cited Contributors Index ...
