Klezmer America - Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Freedman, Jonathan (Professor of English and Ameri Freedman, Freedman Jonathan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2008
• EAN: 9780231142786
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14278-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; RELIGION / Judaism / History, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, MUSIC / Ethnic, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Religion & beliefs, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Folk, Folkloric styles, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Traditional and folk music, Jewish studies; ethnic studies