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Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… study aims to trace the unique characteristics of a type of music unparalleled in the central-eastern European … in their corpus: tunes of local Mediterranean origin, klezmer tunes, and melodies of Yiddish popular and Hebrew … Koskoff, Ellen. 2001. Music in Lubavitcher Life. Music in American Life . Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Lukin, …
Mark Slobin
… Mark Slobin is the Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University and the author or … Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, film music, American music, and ethnomusicology theory, two of which … Taylor Award: " Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World " and " Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the …
Pete Sokolow
… Pete Sokolow, a Brooklyn native, is a jazz and klezmer pianist and reed player whose klezmer roots in the Catskills span older and newer generations of Jewish musicians. Sokolow has played with many major figures in … dedicated to the music of Dave Tarras . Biography from The American Folklife Center . Interviews with Pete Sokolow: …
Jewish Music Collections at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv
… Jewish Music Collections of the Vernadsky National Library of … Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Song at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, about … collection have emerged legally in the website of the Klezmer Institute as an open digital humanities platform. …
Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century
… Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras . Syracuse: … York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century completes an American klezmer trilogy of sorts, alongside Hankus Netsky’s …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… provides a fascinating window into the intersections of American, Palestinian and European Zionism, mid-century Yiddish secular culture, the contemporary klezmer scene, and even into modern synagogue liturgical … remembered for his contributions to the liturgical music of American Reform Judaism and his work on Biblical …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Purim, Brothers’) is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many American Jewish songsters at least since Samuel E. … in this article is track number six. European group 'The Klezmer Alliance' recorded the song in their mini …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… focusing on changes introduced to the text and the music within different historical contexts and local Jewish … and the crowd sings louder and harsher. The Israeli klezmer band Oy Division included their take of this H abad … and the Hebrew Chant of ‘Echod Mi Yodea’.” Journal of American Folklore 62, no. 246 (1949): 382-411. [1] …
Terkish (LKT)
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … citation, you get the full reference. “ Bulgar was the American Jewish name for a dance genre which had come to …
Sher
… This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of … and contemporary state of knowledge about klezmer music. Each entry includes a number of citations from … a moderate-tempo figure dance in 2/4 time, resembling the American square dance and the Russian quadrille.” …