Book of Klezmer
The History, the Music, the Folklore
Published on 1. August 2002
426 pages
978-1-61374-137-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 "e;a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears."e; Most of the European klezmorim (klezmer players) were murdered in the Holocaust; in the last 25 years, however, klezmer has been reborn, with dozens of groups, often mixing klezmer with jazz or rock, gaining large followings throughout the world. The Book of Klezmer traces the music's entire history, making use of extensive documentary material; interviews with forgotten klezmorim as well as luminaries such as Theodore Bikel, Leonard Nimoy, Joel Grey, Andy Statman, and John Zorn; and dozens of illuminating, stirring, and previously unpublished photographs.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Note on Yiddish Spellings
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Fun David Ha-Melekh biz Duvid der Klezmer (From King David to Duvid the Klezmer)
- 2: Fun der Haskole biz Dem Khurbn (From the Enlightenment to the Holocaust)
- 3: Klezmer in der Naye Velt: 1880-1960 (Klezmer in the New World: 1880-1960)
- 4: Fun Zev biz Zorn: Di Bale-Kulturniks (From Zev to Zorn: The Masters of Culture)
- Appendix 1: Klezmer Zikhroynes in di Yizker Bikher (Klezmer Memories in the Memorial Books)
- Appendix 2 Klezmer Loshn (Klezmer Slang)
- Appendix 3 Klezmer Nigunim (Klezmer Tunes)
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Discography
- Index ...
