18/04/2019
Horse Raddish – Haskalah
This new album by Horse Raddish explores new imaginary territories, inspired by Yiddish folklore, jazz and contemporary music. It creates in us alternatively tenderness, humor or rage. …
19/03/2019
Hip Hop in Urban Borderlands
Published in 2019 by the Europäische Zentrum für Jüdische Musik (EZJM) in Hanover, in its collection "Jewish Music Studies", this book Hip Hop in Urban Borderlands is an in-depth research of Hip Hop culture in Israel, in its sociological and ethnomusicological aspects …
05/03/2019
Kurt Weill
Composer and musicologist, Bruno Giner presents and analyses in this new book not only Kurt Weill’s masterpieces but also his life in which shone she who was for long his muse: the singer Lotte Lenya …
19/02/2019
Perdu dans les étoiles ou Le destin juif de Kurt Weill
Author of three books dedicated to Kurt Weill, Roland Bélicha is a former collaborator of the magazines Revue Musicale and Revue Finno-ougrienne. He also wrote about Erik Satie …
12/02/2019
Sutzkever Project
The CD Sutzkever Project gathers 12 poems written by Avrom Sutzkever on a music composed by Olivier Milhaud beautifully performed by Mélanie Gardyn (vocal) and Natacha Medvedeva (piano). …
05/02/2019
M. Offenbach nous écrit
Published in January 2019 by the Editions Actes Sud Beaux-Arts / Palazzetto Bru Zane, this book by Jean-Claude Yon based on Offenbach’s mail with the founder of the newspaper Figaro, gives us a privileged access to the personality and thoughts of a musician at ease with words and musical notes …
21/01/2019
KZ Musik: Encyclopedia of music composed in concentration camps (1933 – 1945)
Published in 2011 under the direction of Francesco Lotoro, this boxed set of 24 CDs gathers more than 500 pieces of music composed in the concentration camps …
10/01/2019
Music and politics in the IIIrd Reich Germany at the eve of the Cold War
Published in 2018 at the Presses universitaires of Paris-Sorbonne, this book by Elise Petit presents an original analysis of musical politics in Germany between 1933 and 1949. …
19/12/2018
Punk Rock Hora : Adventures in Jew-Punk land
Published in 2018 in USA, the book Punk Rock Hora : Adventures in Jew-Punk land talks about the musicians who combine punk-rock and judaism, be it at a cultural, identity, musical aspect, or the three at the same time …
