Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

Read [Walter Zev Feldman Book] ! Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory The complex of speech, dance, and musical gesture is deeply rooted in Jewish expressive culture, and reached its highest development in Eastern Europe. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory reveals the artistic transformations of the liturgy of the Ashkenazic synagogue in klezmer wedding melodies, and presents the most extended study available in any language of the relationship of Jewish dance to the rich and varied klezmer music of Eastern Europe.Author Walter Zev Feldman expertly exami

Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory

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Rating : 4.65 (718 Votes)
Asin : 0190244518
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 440 Pages
Publish Date : 2014-06-09
Language : English

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The complex of speech, dance, and musical gesture is deeply rooted in Jewish expressive culture, and reached its highest development in Eastern Europe. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory reveals the artistic transformations of the liturgy of the Ashkenazic synagogue in klezmer wedding melodies, and presents the most extended study available in any language of the relationship of Jewish dance to the rich and varied klezmer music of Eastern Europe.Author Walter Zev Feldman expertly examines the major written sources--principally in Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Romanian--from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Thus, his analysis reveals both the musical and cultural systems underlying the klezmer music of Eastern Europe.. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the largest transnational Je

His deep regional knowledge, rigorous fieldwork, historical insight, and close collaboration with key musicians make this seminal volume outstanding."--Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University"Feldman's text addresses important voids in the field, and will be regarded as a valuable reference volume." --Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory. "Deeply informed by historical research, fine-tuned cultural sensibilities, priceless interviews, and decades of experience as a performer and teacher, this book will stand for many years to come as a monument to Jewish mu

Walter Zev Feldman is Visiting Professor of Music at New York University Abu Dhabi, Director of the An-sky Institute for Traditional Jewish Expressive Culture at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (NYC), and Board Member of Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (University of Münster).

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