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RE: musical history of klezmer forms
- From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>
- Subject: RE: musical history of klezmer forms
- Date: Tue 15 Feb 2000 09.18 (GMT)
Please tell us more about your festival.
Reyzl
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From: jonathan walton [SMTP:jaw42 (at) hotmail(dot)com]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 5:25 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: musical history of klezmer forms
Hi there,
I'm in London, helping to organise a Jewish music festival this summer and
I'd appreciate some guidance from knowledgeable fans to help me where my
netsearches have failed: to try to work out the relationship between Jewish
music and 'host' music culture. I know there are some purists who maintain
there is no pure Jewish music, others who claim that an interpretation of,
say, a polka by a Jewish or Gypsy fiddler last century would have been by
default substantially different to one played by a conservatory educated
establishment musician, therefore Jewish music is to a certain extent
anything played by a Jew.
My exact question relates to the nature of the relationship between
traditional Jewish forms like the doina, bulgar, freylakh, etc and the
Central/East European dances (polka, csardas, tango) alongside which they
evolved. Any ideas of where to look for help?
Thanks v much,
yours,
Jonathan Walton.
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