The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant-Garde

You can hear it in the hottest clubs in New York, the hippest rooms in New Orleans,...
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Author: Seth Rogovoy
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The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant-Garde by Rogovoy, Seth

The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant-Garde

€26,42

The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant-Garde

€26,42
Author: Seth Rogovoy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
You can hear it in the hottest clubs in New York, the hippest rooms in New Orleans, Chicago, and San Francisco, and in top concert halls around the world. It's a joyous sound that echoes the past. It's Old World meets New World. It's secular and sacred. It's traditional and experimental. It's played by classical violinist Itzhak Perlman (his all-klezmer album in his all-time best-seller!), the hypno-pop band Yo La Tengo, and avant-gardist John Zorn. It made the late great Benny Goodman's clarinet wail. It's klezmer and it's hot!

The Essential Klezmer is the definitive introduction to a musical form in the midst of a renaissance. It documents the history of klezmer from its roots in the Jewish communities of medieval Eastern Europe to its current revival in Europe and America. It includes detailed information about the music's social, cultural, and political roots as well as vivid descriptions of the instruments, their unique sounds, and the players who've kept those sounds alive through the ages. Music journalist Seth Rogovoy skillfully conveys the emotional intensity and uplifting power of klezmer and the reasons for its ever widening popularity among Jews and Gentiles, Hasidim and club kids, grandparents and their grandkids.

A comprehensive discography presents the Essential Klezmer Library, extensive lists of recordings, artists, and styles, as well as an up-to-the-minute resource of music retailers, festivals, workshops, and klezmer Web sites.

The Essential Klezmer is as entertaining as it is enlightening.



Author: Seth Rogovoy
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 05/12/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.72w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781565122444


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/05/2000 pg. 87
Library Journal 06/15/2000 pg. 86
Booklist 06/01/2000 pg. 1831

About the Author
Rogovoy, Seth: - Seth Rogovoy is a pop-music critic and historian. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he hosts an all-klezmer radio program called Rockin' the Shtetl.

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