American Klezmer : its roots and offshoots /

Corporate Author: Klezmer Research Conference
Other Authors: Slobin, Mark.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • American Klezmer: a brief history / Hankus Netsky
  • Klezmer-Ioshn: the language of Jewish folk musicians / Robert A. Rothstein
  • Di Rushishe progresiv Muzikal Yunyoun No. 1 fun Americke : the first Klezemer Union in America / James Leoffler
  • The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915-70 / Hankus Netsky
  • "All my life a musician": Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America / Michael Alpert
  • Bulgărescă, Bulgarish, Bulgar: the transformation of the Klezmer dance genre / Walter Zec Feldman
  • Sounds and sensibility / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
  • KlezKamp and the rise of Yiddish cultural literacy / Henry Sapoznik
  • Newish, not Jewish: a tale of two bands / Marion Jacobson
  • An insider's view: how we traveled from obscurity to the Klezmer establishment in twenty years / Frank London
  • Why we do this anyway: Klezmer as Jewish youth subculture / Alicia Svigals.