Klezmer : Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Netsky, Hankus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music.
Klezmer music.
Jews > Music.
Jewish musicians.
MUSIC > General.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Klezmer music > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jewish musicians > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jews > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Music > History and criticism.
Klezmer music > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (252 pages).
ISBN:9781439909058

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