Re: klezmer dance

[M Rubin <mdrubin...>]

>I wonder if Living Traditions might be interested in reprinting Jewish Folk
>Dances.  If the instructions are clear enough to teach the dances to
>someone who wasn't already familiar with them, it would help revive the
>tradition.

A capital idea! However, that brings up the question, where to get the
capital to do so??
Like many of y'all, I was intrigued when I read that particular post, and
the first thing that went through my mind was how to get a copy.

The sad fact is that to properly reprint something that that would take
money to do. And it's doubtful that you could convince a publisher that
there would be enough of a market for it to make the expenditure.

What's really neat about living in these modern times, along with acces to
penicillin and indoor plumbing, is that there's a Kinko's open everywhere,
right now. On other music lists I subscribe to, some folks have found great
old resource books (Bickford's Modern Method for Mandocello (1918) for
instance) and "published" them in mighty small batches for those folks who
would be interested in, and willing to cover the expense of. Musicians have
been making source tapes of 78's for one another this way for a long time,
and it's gone a long way in preserving the old tunes that not everyone has
access to.

(OK, there's the little matter of this being technically against the law
and all. But I seriously doubt that the owners of the original publishing
would ever excercise a claim over. Even then, they can only ask you to stop
doing it.)

Howsaboutit? I'll spring for a copy!

Mark Rubin
Austin TX
www.nonpariel.net/rubinchik