Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

by Jonathan Freedman

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Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go into the making of Jewishness come into contact with those that build different forms of cultural identity?

Jonathan Freedman argues that terms central...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:023114279X

ISBN13:9780231142793

Release Date:October 2009

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:408 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Music Social Science Social Sciences

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