
Klezmer |
Subtitle:
Music and community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia
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Book Category:
History > General
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Author:
Hankus Netsky
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Binding:
Cloth
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ISBN 13:
9781439909034
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Price:
USD $52.00
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Publication Year:
2015
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Publisher Info
Temple University Press. InquiryBook Description
Klezmer?presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphia?s Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations.