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Author Waligórska, Magdalena, author

Title Klezmer's afterlife : an ethnography of the Jewish music revival in Poland and Germany / Magdalena Waligórska
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Klezmer music and its traditions in Kraków and Berlin -- Appropriated music -- Meeting the other, eating the other : Klezmer as a contact zone -- The grammars of vernacular klezmer -- Klezmer and the politics of remembering -- People in-between -- Triangles of relief : Klezmer and the negotiation of identities
Summary Klezmer has been a controversial phenomenon in post-Holocaust Europe, ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to concert halls and discos. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jewish audiences, it quickly gained the epithet of 'fakelore' and was branded commercially-motivated heritage appropriation. The present book documents this remarkable music revival in its two European epicentres: Berlin and Kraków, investigating not only its roots and motivations, but also the consequences that performing Jewish music has had for non-Jewish klezmer revivalists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Klezmer music -- Poland -- History and criticism
Klezmer music -- Germany -- History and criticism
Klezmer music -- Social aspects -- Poland
Klezmer music -- Social aspects -- Germany
Klezmer music
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political.
Printed Music, Vocal.
Germany
Poland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199346424
0199346429