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And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America (Hardcover, New Ed)
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And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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The dawn of the twenty-first century marked a turning period for
American Yiddish culture. The 'Old World' of Yiddish-speaking
Eastern Europe was fading from living memory - yet at the same
time, Yiddish song enjoyed a renaissance of creative interest, both
among a younger generation seeking reengagement with the Yiddish
language, and, most prominently via the transnational revival of
klezmer music. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the
early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook
publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs,
well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American
popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a
couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged
with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural
politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and
a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores
how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and
ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century,
presenting an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical
repertory - New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century - and
outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its
singers have taken to, and beyond, this point.
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