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Sounding Jewish in Berlin - Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City (Hardcover)
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Sounding Jewish in Berlin - Klezmer Music and the Contemporary City (Hardcover)
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How can a traditional music with little apparent historical
connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of
the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century? In
Sounding Jewish in Berlin, author Phil Alexander explores the
dialogue between the city's contemporary klezmer scene and the
street-level creativity that has become a hallmark of Berlin's
decidedly modern urbanity and cosmopolitanism. By tracing how
klezmer music engages with the spaces and symbolic meanings of the
city, Alexander sheds light on how this Eastern European Jewish
folk music has become not just a product but also a producer of
Berlin. This engaging study of Berlin's dynamic Yiddish music scene
brings together ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and urban
geography to evoke the sounds, atmospheres, and performance spaces
through which klezmer musicians have built a lively set of musical
networks in the city. Transcending a restrictive framework that
considers this music solely in the context of troubled
German-Jewish history and notions of guilt and absence, Alexander
shows how Berlin's current klezmer community-a diverse group of
Jewish and non-Jewish performers-imaginatively blend the genre's
traditional musical language with characteristically local tones to
forge an adaptable and distinctively twenty-first-century version
of klezmer. Ultimately, the music's vital presence in Berlin is
powerful evidence that if traditional music is to remain audible
amid the noise of the urban, it must become a meaningful part of
that noise.
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