American Klezmer – Its Roots and Offshoots

University of California Press, 2002, 252 p.

Este libro, editado por Mark Slobin, reúne 11 artículos de diversos autores: artistas, investigadores o autores en la encrucijada de disciplinas que escriben fuera del ámbito académico tradicional. Reúne estudios sólidos (a veces actualizados a partir de publicaciones anteriores) que sirven de base para seguir investigando en el campo de la música klezmer.

Contenido:

Introducción: 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)

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