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The book of klezmer : the history, the music, the folklore /
Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse tha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Ill. :
A Cappella,
©2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been reborn, with dozens of groups, often mixing klezmer with jazz or rock, gaining large followings throughout the world. The Book of Klezmer traces the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 381 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-369), discography (p. 371-374) , and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781613741375 1613741375 9781613741399 1613741391 |