The Book of Klezmer: The History, the Music, the Folklore

by Yale Strom

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Klezmer is Yiddish music, the music of the Jews of Europe and America, a music of laughter and tears, of weddings and festivals, of dancing and prayer. Born in the Middle Ages, it came of age in the shtetl (the Eastern European Jewish country town), where "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1613740638

ISBN13:9781613740637

Release Date:June 2011

Publisher:Chicago Review Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Arts & Literature Arts, Music & Photography Composers & Musicians Ethnic & International Ethnomusicology Folk & Traditional History Music Musical Genres Theory, Composition & Performance

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