Klezmer's afterlife : an ethnography of the Jewish music revival in Poland and Germany /
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-motiv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199995806 019999580X 9780199346424 0199346429 |