Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xv, 331 pages : illustrations, music; 25 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. Jews -- Germany -- Berlin -- Music -- History and criticism
3. Klezmer music -- Germany -- Berlin -- 21st century -- History and criticism
4. Music -- Social aspects -- History -- Germany -- Berlin -- 21st century
5. Jews -- Music
6. Klezmer music
7. Music -- Social aspects
8. Germany -- Berlin

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. 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

1. JME 21-289

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index.

Author

1. Alexander, Phil, author.

Title

1. Sounding Jewish in Berlin : klezmer music and the contemporary city / Phil Alexander.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Other form:

1. Online version: Alexander, Phil, Sounding Jewish in Berlin [1.] New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. 9780190064457 (DLC) 2020041421

LCCN

1. 2020041420

ISBN

1. 9780190064433 hardcover
2. 0190064439 hardcover

Research call number

1. JME 21-289