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Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World
By: Sapoznik, Henry
Price: $12.98
Publisher: Schirmer Books: January 1999
Seller ID: 307585
ISBN: 002864574X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
Since its late 19th century origins as music that accompanied Jewish religious celebrations, klezmer has continued to grow, mixing with more mainstream American musical culture to produce a style that is a contemporary blend of old world and new school. Today there are hundreds of klezmer groups, from the bestselling Klezmatics and Itzhak Perlman recordings, to the more obscure KlezSka ("We combine Klezmer/Jewish/Israeli music with Ska/Reggae"), Yid Vicious ("trying to bring Klezmer to Wisconsin") and Princeton University's Klez Dispensers.
For the first time, Yiddish music scholar Henry Sap...
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