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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1. Verfasser: Waligórska, Magdalena 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press [2013]2013
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Zusammenfassung: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 Krak ow, investigating not only its roots and motivations, but also the consequences that performing Jewish music has had for non-Jewish klezmer revivalists
Beschreibung:Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (IX, 302 S.)
ISBN:9780199346424
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199995790.001.0001

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