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Re: musical history of klezmer forms
- From: Peter Rushefsky <rushefsky_p...>
- Subject: Re: musical history of klezmer forms
- Date: Wed 16 Feb 2000 20.47 (GMT)
Would recommend Feldman's article on the Bulgar: Feldman, Walter Z.
"Bulgareasca/Bulgarish/Bulgar:
The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre." Ethnomusicology 38(1) 1994, 1-33.
I think you'll find that doinas and bulgars are actually more recent additions
to the klezmer repertoire, coming from Romanian music (though klezzified in the
process). There's a good web site on doinas by Robert Garfias.
>>> jonathan walton 02/14 5:24 PM >>>
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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