TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander, Phil
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021//
TI  - Sounding Jewish in Berlin: Klezmer music and the contemporary city
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - New York, NY
KW  - Jews
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Klezmer music
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
AB  - "This book explores in lively detail the music, musical networks and performance spaces of the contemporary Berlin klezmer and Yiddish music scene. It chronicles an avowedly international group of musicians (Jewish and non-Jewish) who collectively represent an important new transnational voice for this traditional Eastern European Jewish music. Through the words and music of the performers, the author reveals a rich and constantly developing scene that has embedded itself in the contemporary city in creative, diverse, and sometimes confrontational ways. This ongoing transformation of Berlin klezmer is powerful evidence that if traditional music is to remain audible amid the noise of the urban, it must stake its claim as a meaningful part of that noise. By engaging with the city itself, klezmer in Berlin has moved beyond 'revival'-revealing how traditional culture can remain relevant within a shifting, overlapping, decidedly modern, urban cosmopolitanism"--
SN  - 9780190064433
LA  - English
N1  - Phil Alexander
ID  - 1737272393
ER  -