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Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia
Hankus Netsky
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Description for Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia
Paperback. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJ; AVGH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. .
Klezmer presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia’s Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations.
Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how it helped define Jewish immigrant culture in Philadelphia, and how its current revival has changed klezmer’s meaning historically. Klezmer also addresses the place of musicians and celebratory music in Jewish society, the nature of klezmer culture, the tensions between ... Read more
Klezmer presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia’s Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations.
Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how it helped define Jewish immigrant culture in Philadelphia, and how its current revival has changed klezmer’s meaning historically. Klezmer also addresses the place of musicians and celebratory music in Jewish society, the nature of klezmer culture, the tensions between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439909041
SKU
V9781439909041
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About Hankus Netsky
Hankus Netsky is a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston, and is director of its Jewish music ensemble. He is also the founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He has collaborated, performed and recorded with many well-known artists, including Itzhak Perlman and Theodore Bikel.
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