| Description |
1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Klezmer Musician; 1. The Klezmer Mystique; 2. Klezmer Musicians in Jewish Philadelphia, 1900-1945; 3. Philadelphia's Klezmer Tradition: The Later Years; Part II. Musical Traditions; 4. Klezmer at Philadelphia's Jewish Weddings; 5. The Evolution of Philadelphia's Russian Sher Medley; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Klezmer music -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
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Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Music -- History and criticism
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Jewish musicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Klezmer music -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History and criticism -- Music -- 20th century
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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MUSIC -- General.
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Jewish musicians
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Jews -- Music
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Klezmer music
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Music.
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Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
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Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc.
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781439909058 |
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1439909059 |
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