Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory
is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social
history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of
Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a
central cultural feature of the largest transnational Jewish community
of modern times - the Ashkenazim of Eastern Europe. Much of the musical
and choreographic history of the Ashkenazim is embedded in the klezmer
repertoire, which functioned as a kind of non-verbal communal memory.
The complex of speech, dance, and musical gesture is deeply rooted in
Jewish expressive culture, and reached its highest development in
Eastern Europe. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory
reveals the artistic transformations of the liturgy of the Ashkenazic
synagogue in klezmer wedding melodies, and presents the most extended
study available in any language of the relationship of Jewish dance to
the rich and varied klezmer music of Eastern Europe.
Author
Walter Zev Feldman expertly examines the major written
sources--principally in Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Romanian--from the
16th to the 20th centuries. He draws upon the foundational notated
collections of the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods, as well as
rare cantorial and klezmer manuscripts from the late 18th to the early
20th centuries. He has conducted interviews with authoritative
European-born klezmorim over a period of more than thirty years, in
America, Europe, and Israel. Thus, his analysis reveals both the musical
and cultural systems underlying the klezmer music of Eastern Europe.
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