"Those who still maintain that the subject of klezmer music and klezmorim is too slight to merit serious scholarly inquiry should take a good look at this fine collection of essays. This book debunks certain misconceptions about klezmer. One is the long-held belief that practitioners of klezmer were quaint but musical illiterates. The other is that this is an effort to take a musical art form off the shelf to be preserved as a museum piece with little contemporary life of its own. I am also delighted by those sections that ...
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"Those who still maintain that the subject of klezmer music and klezmorim is too slight to merit serious scholarly inquiry should take a good look at this fine collection of essays. This book debunks certain misconceptions about klezmer. One is the long-held belief that practitioners of klezmer were quaint but musical illiterates. The other is that this is an effort to take a musical art form off the shelf to be preserved as a museum piece with little contemporary life of its own. I am also delighted by those sections that deal with the Yiddish verbal expression of the klezmer idiom. Klezmer is not just an avenue of maintaining cultural roots without the necessity of learning a language, as portions of this this book so well illustrate."--Theodore Bikel, recording artist and actor
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Fine. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, bound in black cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. A fine collection of essays about American klezmer music, its roots, its evolution, and its spirited revitalization. The contributors include Hankus Netsky, Robert A. Rothstein, James Loeffler, Michael Alpert, Walter ZXev Feldman, Barbara Kirshenblatt-GImblett, Henry Sapoznik, Marion Jacobsen and Alicia Svigals, who theorize and provide empirical data about leading klezmer musicians and the social and cultural history of the musical form. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. vii, 1-245 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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