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American Klezmer
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Mark Slobin
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Investigates American klezmer music: its roots, evolution and the revival that began in the 1970s.
American Klezmer
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Mark Slobin
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States w
Klezmer America
Language: en
Pages: 403
Authors: Jonathan Freedman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-22 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other grou
Klezmer's Afterlife
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Magdalena Waligorska
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Bud
Fiddler on the Move
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Mark Slobin
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-02-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Klezmer" is a Yiddish word for professional folk instrumentalist-the flutist, fiddler, and bass player that made brides weep and guests dance at weddings throu