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Re: New Sub-Categories and Adjectives for Jewish Music
- From: richard_wolpoe <richard_wolpoe...>
- Subject: Re: New Sub-Categories and Adjectives for Jewish Music
- Date: Tue 06 Jan 1998 13.55 (GMT)
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Subject: New Sub-Categories and Adjectives for Jewish Music
Author: <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org > at tcpgate
Date: 1/6/98 5:35 AM
>The problem with culture is that it is evolves. So if people try to exclude
>artists who try to broaden Jewish culture, then that culture will become
>something which is merely archival, and not alive. I have a lot of respect
>for those who wish to preserve European Jewish culture as it was. But there
>is a living Jewish community here in the US and if a number of bands throw
>rock, jazz and other elements together with the klezmer tradition, to name
>only one, I think that is fine.
Maybe we should have "Klezmer" refer to "traditional klezmer" (ie pre wwII)
and "neo-Klezmer" refer to the continuing evolution of that style of
music...