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Klezmer
Klezmer
Subtitle:
Music and community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia
Book Category:
History > General
Author:
Hankus Netsky
Binding:
Cloth
ISBN 13:
9781439909034
Price:
USD $52.00
Publication Year:
2015

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Temple University Press.

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Book 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.