Sounding Jewish in Berlin: klezmer music and the contemporary city
"This book explores in lively detail the music, musical networks and performance spaces of the contemporary Berlin klezmer and Yiddish music scene. It chronicles an avowedly international group of musicians (Jewish and non-Jewish) who collectively represent an important new transnational voice...
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| Summary: | "This book explores in lively detail the music, musical networks and performance spaces of the contemporary Berlin klezmer and Yiddish music scene. It chronicles an avowedly international group of musicians (Jewish and non-Jewish) who collectively represent an important new transnational voice for this traditional Eastern European Jewish music. Through the words and music of the performers, the author reveals a rich and constantly developing scene that has embedded itself in the contemporary city in creative, diverse, and sometimes confrontational ways. This ongoing transformation of Berlin klezmer is powerful evidence that if traditional music is to remain audible amid the noise of the urban, it must stake its claim as a meaningful part of that noise. By engaging with the city itself, klezmer in Berlin has moved beyond 'revival'-revealing how traditional culture can remain relevant within a shifting, overlapping, decidedly modern, urban cosmopolitanism"-- |
| Physical Description: | xv, 331 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Portraits |
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| adam_text | Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments Note on translation, orthography, interviews, and recordings About the companion website xi xiii xvii xix 1. Why Berlin? Why Klezmer? Introduction Berlin and the “German klezmer” debate Where I’m starting from Performing Berlin: The Night of the Singing Balconies 1 1 7 13 21 2. The Music in Berlin: Musical Networks Introduction Klezmer networks The historical context German pioneers and outsiders Modernists Fantasists Transformers Berlin in relation to the wider scene The Feidman legacy Conclusion 27 27 31 37 43 57 66 75 85 89 92 3. The Music in Berlin: Spaces and Places Introduction Music, space, and bricolage culture Jewish space The Klezmer Bund: Kaffee Burger and Gorki Theater Tants in Gartn Eydn: Klezmer in the village dancehall A night at the kosher cafe Jam sessions 1 : Klezmerstammtisch Jam sessions 2: The Lounge Jam sessions 3: Bar Oblomov and new klezmer space A shtetl in Berlin Conclusion 94 94 98 106 110 124 128 132 137 140 151 154
X CONTENTS 4. Placing Berlin in the Music Introduction Hearing the city Klezmer, vu bistu? (where are you?) Berlin as gateway: ?Shmaltz!’s Malwonia “My lover, my murderer’s daughter”: Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird The many languages of Yiddish Fantasist geography and the New Old Europe Sound Berlin as borderland Conclusion 156 156 157 159 164 169 176 181 184 187 5. Sounding Jewish in Berlin Introduction: The music of Jewish memory The Semer (and Lukraphon) story, part 1 The Semer story, reloaded Semer as Jewish memory Semer as contemporary Berlin Questions and partialities . “That’s not my problem!” Tania Aion and Berlin Jewish identity Conclusion 190 190 193 197 202 206 210 213 221 6. Curating the Tradition: Dissemination, Learning, and Responsibility Introduction Tradition? The klezmer workshop in Germany—whose tradition? Yiddish Summer Weimar: Tradition in process Heterophony as critical practice Dance music—Music for dancing “First the territory, then the map” Weimar in action Weimar and tradition Conclusion 223 223 226 229 236 239 245 252 256 263 265 7. Performing Berlin: The Silence of the City (Postlude) Sounding the city Phénoménologies of silence 1 : Schweigeweg (silent path) Phénoménologies of silence 2: Gleis 17 269 269 271 276 8. Conclusion 279 Appendix 1 : A Brief Overview ofKlezmer Music Klezmorim and their music Form, structure, sound Appendix 2: Interview Information Bibliography Index 285 285 290 295 303 319
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Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments Note on translation, orthography, interviews, and recordings About the companion website xi xiii xvii xix 1. Why Berlin? Why Klezmer? Introduction Berlin and the “German klezmer” debate Where I’m starting from Performing Berlin: The Night of the Singing Balconies 1 1 7 13 21 2. The Music in Berlin: Musical Networks Introduction Klezmer networks The historical context German pioneers and outsiders Modernists Fantasists Transformers Berlin in relation to the wider scene The Feidman legacy Conclusion 27 27 31 37 43 57 66 75 85 89 92 3. The Music in Berlin: Spaces and Places Introduction Music, space, and bricolage culture Jewish space The Klezmer Bund: Kaffee Burger and Gorki Theater Tants in Gartn Eydn: Klezmer in the village dancehall A night at the kosher cafe Jam sessions 1 : Klezmerstammtisch Jam sessions 2: The Lounge Jam sessions 3: Bar Oblomov and new klezmer space A shtetl in Berlin Conclusion 94 94 98 106 110 124 128 132 137 140 151 154
X CONTENTS 4. Placing Berlin in the Music Introduction Hearing the city Klezmer, vu bistu? (where are you?) Berlin as gateway: ?Shmaltz!’s Malwonia “My lover, my murderer’s daughter”: Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird The many languages of Yiddish Fantasist geography and the New Old Europe Sound Berlin as borderland Conclusion 156 156 157 159 164 169 176 181 184 187 5. Sounding Jewish in Berlin Introduction: The music of Jewish memory The Semer (and Lukraphon) story, part 1 The Semer story, reloaded Semer as Jewish memory Semer as contemporary Berlin Questions and partialities . “That’s not my problem!” Tania Aion and Berlin Jewish identity Conclusion 190 190 193 197 202 206 210 213 221 6. Curating the Tradition: Dissemination, Learning, and Responsibility Introduction Tradition? The klezmer workshop in Germany—whose tradition? Yiddish Summer Weimar: Tradition in process Heterophony as critical practice Dance music—Music for dancing “First the territory, then the map” Weimar in action Weimar and tradition Conclusion 223 223 226 229 236 239 245 252 256 263 265 7. Performing Berlin: The Silence of the City (Postlude) Sounding the city Phénoménologies of silence 1 : Schweigeweg (silent path) Phénoménologies of silence 2: Gleis 17 269 269 271 276 8. Conclusion 279 Appendix 1 : A Brief Overview ofKlezmer Music Klezmorim and their music Form, structure, sound Appendix 2: Interview Information Bibliography Index 285 285 290 295 303 319 |
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