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
