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Klezmer America
Jonathan Freedman
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Description for Klezmer America
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
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 to the Jewish experience in America, notions like "the immigrant," the "ethnic," and even the "model minority," have worked and continue to intertwine the Jewish-American with the experiences, histories, and imaginative ... Read more
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 to the Jewish experience in America, notions like "the immigrant," the "ethnic," and even the "model minority," have worked and continue to intertwine the Jewish-American with the experiences, histories, and imaginative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231142793
SKU
V9780231142793
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About Jonathan Freedman
Jonathan Freedman is professor of English and American studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture and The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America.
Reviews for Klezmer America
There are some fascinating vignettes in this book.
Shoel Stadlen Times Literary Supplement always engaging and at time groundbreaking.
David Brauner Wasafiri
Shoel Stadlen Times Literary Supplement always engaging and at time groundbreaking.
David Brauner Wasafiri