Physical Description
vii, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
American Klezmer: a brief history / Hankus Netsky
Klezmer-Ioshn: the language of Jewish folk musicians / Robert A. Rothstein
Di Rushishe progresiv Muzikal Yunyoun No. 1 fun Americke : the first Klezemer Union in America / James Leoffler
The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915-70 / Hankus Netsky
"All my life a musician": Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America / Michael Alpert
Bulgărescă, Bulgarish, Bulgar: the transformation of the Klezmer dance genre / Walter Zec Feldman
Sounds and sensibility / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
KlezKamp and the rise of Yiddish cultural literacy / Henry Sapoznik
Newish, not Jewish: a tale of two bands / Marion Jacobson
An insider's view: how we traveled from obscurity to the Klezmer establishment in twenty years / Frank London
Why we do this anyway: Klezmer as Jewish youth subculture / Alicia Svigals.
Other Authors/Editors
Slobin, Mark.
Klezmer Research Conference (1st : 1996 : Wesleyan University)
ISBN
0520227174
0520227182 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.
American Klezmer: a brief history / Hankus Netsky -- Klezmer-Ioshn: the language of Jewish folk musicians / Robert A. Rothstein -- Di Rushishe progresiv Muzikal Yunyoun No. 1 fun Americke : the first Klezemer Union in America / James Leoffler -- The Klezmer in Jewish Philadelphia, 1915-70 / Hankus Netsky -- "All my life a musician": Ben Bazyler, a European Klezmer in America / Michael Alpert -- Bulgărescă, Bulgarish, Bulgar: the transformation of the Klezmer dance genre / Walter Zec Feldman -- Sounds and sensibility / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- KlezKamp and the rise of Yiddish cultural literacy / Henry Sapoznik -- Newish, not Jewish: a tale of two bands / Marion Jacobson -- An insider's view: how we traveled from obscurity to the Klezmer establishment in twenty years / Frank London -- Why we do this anyway: Klezmer as Jewish youth subculture / Alicia Svigals.
