Klezmer: music, history and memory

Klezmer is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music--the music of Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Author Walter Zev Feldman includes major written sources, as well as interviews with European-born klezmorim, conducted over a period of more than thirty years. Including musical analysis, Feldman draws upon the foundational collections of the late Tsarist and early Soviet periods, plus rare klezmer and cantorial manuscripts.

Cover; Klezmer; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; Introduction; Part 1 The Klezmer Profession: Social and Artistic Function; 1. The Music of the Klezmer Within East Ashkenazic Music; 2. What's in a Name? The Word Klezmer and Jewish Professional Musicians; 3. The Klezmer Ensemble; 4. The Role of Russia in the Study of Klezmer Music; 5. The Jewish Wedding and Its Musical Repertoire; 6. East European Jewish Dance; Part 2 Genre and Style in Klezmer Music; 7. The Genres and Repertoires of Klezmer Music

8. Moralishe Niggunim: the Musical Genres of the Wedding9. Rhythmic Melody Among the Ashkenazim: Nign and Zmires; 10. Old European Components in the Core Repertoire; 11. The Sher: History and Choreography; 12. North and South in Klezmer Music: Northern Redl and Southern Freylekhs; 13. Skotshne and Freylekhs; 14. The Khosidl at the Interface of Mystical and Secular Expression; 15. The Bulgar: a Transnational Klezmer Dance Genre; 16. Postlude: a Klezmer Legacy; Appendix 1: Overview of Modal Usage in Klezmer Music; Glossary; Bibliography; Index