Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Orthography and Transliteration
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction: “If You Called Me A Klezmer Thirty-Five Years Ago …”
- 1 A Wedding in Town Was Like a Holiday: A Short History of Klezmorim in Europe
- 2 Klezmer in New York: Changing Meanings, Changing Contexts
- 3 A Kind of “Ethnomusicological Archive”: Commercial 78-rpm Recordings of Klezmer Music
- 4 A Single Field Irrespective of Origin: Polymusicality and Language, Aesthetics, Classification, and Transcription
- 5 “What Mattered Was What’s Happening with the Tune”: Modality and Compositional Processes
- 6 “The Little Things That They Do”: Ornaments and Performance Practice Techniques
- 7 “The Newest Bulgar Out That Everyone Played”: New York Klezmer after 1929
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Orthography and Transliteration
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction: “If You Called Me A Klezmer Thirty-Five Years Ago …”
- 1 A Wedding in Town Was Like a Holiday: A Short History of Klezmorim in Europe
- 2 Klezmer in New York: Changing Meanings, Changing Contexts
- 3 A Kind of “Ethnomusicological Archive”: Commercial 78-rpm Recordings of Klezmer Music
- 4 A Single Field Irrespective of Origin: Polymusicality and Language, Aesthetics, Classification, and Transcription
- 5 “What Mattered Was What’s Happening with the Tune”: Modality and Compositional Processes
- 6 “The Little Things That They Do”: Ornaments and Performance Practice Techniques
- 7 “The Newest Bulgar Out That Everyone Played”: New York Klezmer after 1929
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth CenturyThe Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020