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005    20141212164803.0
008    020220s2002    iluafg   bk   001 0 eng  
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020    1556524455 (hardback : alk. paper)
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050 00 ML3528.8 |b.S77 2002
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100 1  Strom, Yale. |=^A265938
245 14 The book of klezmer : |bthe history, the music, the folklore / |cYale Strom.
250    First edition.
260    Chicago, IL : |bA Cappella Books, |c©2002.
300    xvi, 381 pages, 24 pages of plates : |billustrations, music ; |c24 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-369), discography (pages 371-374), and index.
505 0  From King David to Duvid the Klezmer -- From the Enlightenment to the Holocaust -- Klezmer in the new world: 1880-1960 -- From Zev to Zorn: the masters of culture -- Klezmer memories in the memorial books -- Klezmer slang -- Klezmer tunes.
520    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 "a wedding without klezmer is worse than a funeral without tears." 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. This book 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Bikel, Leonard Nimoy, Joel Grey, Andy Statman, and John Zorn; and dozens of illuminating, stirring, and previously unpublished photographs.
650  0 Klezmer music |xHistory and criticism. |=^A390780
650  0 Jews |xMusic |xHistory and criticism. |=^A91014
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