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American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
American Klezmer Its Roots and Offshoots
Author: Klezmer Research Conference 1996 Wesleyan University)
Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth century, this lively music is now enjoying...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520227187
ISBN-10: 0520227182
Publication Date: 12/3/2001
Pages: 268
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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