Klezmer by Hankus Netsky PAPERBACK 9781439909041

KlezmerMusic and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia\nAuthor(s): Hankus Netsky\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439909041, 978-1439909041\nSynopsis\nKlezmer presents a lively and detailed overview of the folk musical tradition as practiced in Philadelphia's twentieth-century Jewish community. Through interviews, archival research, and recordings, Hankus Netsky constructs an ethnographic portrait of Philadelphias Jewish musicians, the environment they worked in, and the repertoire they performed at local Jewish lifestyle and communal celebrations.\n\n Netsky defines what klezmer music is, how it helped define Jewish immigrant culture in Philadelphia, and how its current revival has changed klezmers meaning historically. Klezmer also addresses the place of musicians and celebratory music in Jewish society, the nature of klezmer culture, the tensions between sacred and secular i.