Klezmer : music, history, and memory /
Klezmer is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music--the music of Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Author Walter Zev Feldman includes major written sources, as well as interviews with European-born klezmorim, conducted over a period of...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Klezmer; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; Introduction; Part 1 The Klezmer Profession: Social and Artistic Function; 1. The Music of the Klezmer Within East Ashkenazic Music; 2. What's in a Name? The Word Klezmer and Jewish Professional Musicians; 3. The Klezmer Ensemble; 4. The Role of Russia in the Study of Klezmer Music; 5. The Jewish Wedding and Its Musical Repertoire; 6. East European Jewish Dance; Part 2 Genre and Style in Klezmer Music; 7. The Genres and Repertoires of Klezmer Music
- 8. Moralishe Niggunim: the Musical Genres of the Wedding9. Rhythmic Melody Among the Ashkenazim: Nign and Zmires; 10. Old European Components in the Core Repertoire; 11. The Sher: History and Choreography; 12. North and South in Klezmer Music: Northern Redl and Southern Freylekhs; 13. Skotshne and Freylekhs; 14. The Khosidl at the Interface of Mystical and Secular Expression; 15. The Bulgar: a Transnational Klezmer Dance Genre; 16. Postlude: a Klezmer Legacy; Appendix 1: Overview of Modal Usage in Klezmer Music; Glossary; Bibliography; Index