Re: Jewish music journal

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

Ari Davidow wrote:

> >Anyway, if
> >getting a printed journal is too difficult, getting a web site where people
> >would upload the articles they have already published about Jewish music
> >would be very easy.  Much great stuff has already been published, but
> >because it is dispersed in scores of different academic, esoteric or small
> >journals, few people have access to them.   You could add all of your
> >articles, and if Jewish Week says no then you could put them on their site
> >and links to them would be established.   Such a site would make this rich
> >material accessible to everyone and inspire new articles all the time.  I
> >have also spoken to Ari about making place for something like that on his
> >web site, but actually many universities would be amenable to holding such
> >large files.
>
> I link to all of the articles I find out about, albeit as time
> permits, at the klezmer shack:
>    http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/contacts/klezwords.html
> and will probably expand that section shortly.
>
> Judy Pinnolis maintains a jewish music web center at http://www.jnwc.org.
>
> I am certainly amenable to talking with anyone who wants to make more
> information and more music available on the web, and supporting it as
> best I can.
>
> Having said that, yes, a print publication is a neat idea and may be
> worth trying first, before going to the web.
>
> ari
>
> Ari Davidow
> ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
> list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> the klezmer shack: http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/
>

What I had in mind, folks, was a magazine geared towards a mass audience, albeit
probably mostly musicians, a la Downbeat, The Beat, Rhythm Music, Jazz Times,
etc., a  magazine that would cover not only Yiddish music but the whole spectrum
of Jewish musical expression. My suspicion is that any other focus will be too
narrow to attract readers or advertisers. I love the Web and am particularly
delighted by the stuff that Ari does, this list included, but I suspect that a
printed magazine is the next step to getting Jewish music more attention in the
world at large, which I take to be our larger mission.


-- George Robinson
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