| Contents |
In the beginning. The European roots of Klezmer music: Da capo ; The vocal tradition of instrumental music ; Constantinople: The Vienna of the Balkans ; From Shtetl to stage ; Marching songs ; Rovne: Musical capital of Volhynia -- Lebu Zol Columbus. Yiddish music in the New World: "I landed and became a Vaudeville musician" ; The rise of Yiddish popular culture ; Broadsides, sheets, 78s -- The golden age of Yiddish popular music: of artists and repertoire ; The rise of the modern Klezmer ensemble ; George Gershwin and Jewish jazz -- Yiddish melodies in swing: 1930s to 1940s: "Af Der Luft": Radio to the rescue ; A miss and a hit ; Playing American ; The sound in Europe ; Yidl Mitn Fidl: Jewish music onscreen -- Twistin' the Freilachs: Borscht belters -- From the Catskill Mountains to the Blue Ridge Mountains (and back!): CETA: The Woodstock-era WPA ; Generation to generation: finding the veteran players ; Klezmer pilgrimage ; Der Yiddisher caravan: Klezmer music on the road ; Hollywood in Brooklyn: chosen for The Chosen and Over the Brooklyn Bridge -- The Revival: Klezmer goes to college: The Klezmer Conservatory ; YIVOs cultural reclamation ; Klezmer rejoins the club ; Kapelye does Germany ; KlezKamp: the Yiddish folk arts program ; The Klezmer documentaries ; South of the border: Kapelye in Mexico -- The future for a music with a past: by any other name ; The emergence of orthodox, conservative, and reform Klezmer ; The Holocaust recordings ; Yiddish radio rides again ; The station that spoke your language ; The Yiddish Sgt. Pepper ; KlezKamp and the rise of the Yiddish Cultural Literacy -- The sound heard 'round the world: the classical world takes note ; The mother tongue, sung ; Old world 1989 ; Yiddish at the Smithsonian ; Rites of passage -- Modes and scales: Melodic and harmonic modes -- Tants nit, Yidelekh: dance music with no dancers: dances and dance rhythms. |
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Accompanying CD contents: Nit bay motin -- Ato Yozarto -- Mayofus -- Doina -- Palesteena -- Di grine kuzine -- Firn di mekhutonim aheym -- Di Hasidim furn tsum Rebin -- Kale bazetzns un a freylekhs -- Der freylekher Rumeyner -- Di rayze nukh Amerika -- Mazl in libe -- The bridegroom special -- Dem nayem sher -- Rumanian fantasy -- Voliner Bulgar -- A freylekhn nakht in Gan Eydn -- Chicken -- Sher -- Sidneys' Eygene Bulgars -- Man in a hat -- Bulgar. |
| Abstract |
This is a story of survival against all odds, of a musical legacy so potent it can still be heard, despite assimilation and near annihilation. The scratchy, distant sound of early recordings bursts forth with such power that they have formed the soundtrack for an entirely new generation of performers, Jew and non-Jew alike, who have embraced and expanded the klezmer tradition. Through stories, pictures, and a companion CD, this book introduces this most vital musical form to new and old fans alike. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDINGS. SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER CD-9160. |
| General note | Accompanied by compact disc: Klezmer! : Jewish music from Old World to our world. [Newton, NJ?] : Yazoo, p2000. Yazoo 7017. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005015522 |
| ISBN | 0825673240 (pbk. with cd : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780825673245 |
| Publisher number | 7017 Yazoo |
