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Sounding Jewish in Berlin : klezmer music and the contemporary city
- Title
- Sounding Jewish in Berlin : klezmer music and the contemporary city / Phil Alexander.
- Author
- Alexander, Phil
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 331 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Music > Social aspects
- Klezmer music
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 2000-2099
- Germany > Berlin
- Jews > Music
- Music > Social aspects > Germany > Berlin > History > 21st century
- Klezmer music > Germany > Berlin > 21st century > History and criticism
- Jews > Germany > Berlin > Music > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index.
- Contents
- Why Berlin? Why klezmer? -- The Music in Berlin : Musical Networks -- The Music in Berlin : Spaces and Places -- Placing Berlin in the music -- Sounding Jewish in Berlin -- Curating the Tradition : Dissemination, Learning, and Responsibility -- Performing Berlin : the silence of the city (Postlude) -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JME 21-289
- ISBN
- 9780190064433
- 0190064439
- LCCN
- 2020041420
- OCLC
- 1184239115
- Author
- Alexander, Phil, author.
- Title
- Sounding Jewish in Berlin : klezmer music and the contemporary city / Phil Alexander.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Alexander, Phil, Sounding Jewish in Berlin [1.] New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. 9780190064457 (DLC) 2020041421
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-289