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Klezmer - Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia (Hardcover)
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Klezmer - Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia (Hardcover)
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Klezmer presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical
tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish
community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings,
Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of
Philadelphia’s Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in,
and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and
communal celebrations. Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how it
helped define Jewish immigrant culture in Philadelphia, and how its
current revival has changed klezmer’s meaning historically.
Klezmer also addresses the place of musicians and celebratory music
in Jewish society, the nature of klezmer culture, the tensions
between sacred and secular in Jewish music, and the development of
Philadelphia's distinctive “Russian Sher” medley, a unique and
masterfully crafted composition. Including a significant amount of
musical transcriptions, Klezmer chronicles this special musical
genre from its heyday in the immigrant era, through the mid-century
period of its decline through its revitalization from the 1980s to
today.
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