Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

by Jonathan Freedman

Book Overview

Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go into the making of Jewishness come into contact with those that build different forms of cultural identity?

Jonathan Freedman argues that terms central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023114279X
• ISBN13: 9780231142793
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher