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Greeted With Smiles - Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York (Hardcover)
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Greeted With Smiles - Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York (Hardcover)
Series: American Musicspheres
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As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of
Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly
Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the
United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about thirty thousand
Bukharian Jews reside in New York City, settled into close-knit
communities and existing as a quintessential American immigrant
group. For Bukharian immigrants, music is an essential part of
their communal self-definition, and musicians frequently act as
cultural representatives for the group as a whole. Greeted with
Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York explores
the circumstances facing new American immigrants, using the music
of the Bukharian Jews to gain entrance into their community and
their culture. Author Evan Rapport investigates the transformation
of Bukharian identity through an examination of corresponding
changes in its music, focusing on three of these distinct but
overlapping repertoires - maquom (classical or "heavy" music),
Jewish religious music and popular music. Drawing upon interviews,
participant observation and music lessons, Rapport interprets the
personal perspectives of musicians who serve as community leaders
and representatives. By adapting strategies acquired as an
ethno-religious minority among Central Asian Muslim neighbors,
Bukharian musicians have adjusted their musical repertoire in their
new American home. The result is the creation of a distinct
Bukharian Jewish American identity-their musical activities are
changing the city's cultural landscape while at the same time
providing for an understanding of the cultural implications of
Bukharian diaspora. Greeted with Smiles is sure to be an essential
text for ethnomusicologists and scholars of Jewish and Central
Asian music and culture, Jewish-Muslim interaction and diasporic
communities.
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