Re: Fwd: A new klezmermusical in Berlin

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Marvin wrote:

> Yes, it is the word "satire" that is bothersome.  A couple of weeks or so
> ago I contrasted the American minstrel shows, which were satires of black
> entertainers,

I don't think this is correct.  Minstrel shows were not "satires" as you claim.

They were more of an indication of the lack of commercial white musical
creativity
in this era and area.  The white entertainer,  latching on to a good
(marketable) thing
when he saw it,  sought to "cover" black repertoire and style, but the racist
and conformist
social climate of the times made it  extremely unseemly for a white man to
comport himself in the manner of a black man (by performing his
all-too-emotional
and earthy music).

There was also the issue of blacks not being tolerated in all-white settings,
including performance venues.  Racist white people were more at ease
with a white man in blackface than the real thing.  And, as paralleled today
with
Jewish music,  most people couldn't tell the difference (in performance
quality)
seldom, if ever, having been exposed to the authentic music or language.

What I can't quite grasp were blacks who performed with burnt cork .
Would this be a way of fooling the audience into thinking that even
a genuine  black person on stage was, behind the make-up, white -- and
therefore non-threatening?

Any thoughts from the "heartless and soulless ethnomusicologists"
who may have studied this phenomenon?


> and white jazz muisicians, who appreciated and emulated music
> of black origin.  Satire is degrading.

Chaucer, Voltaire, Rabelais,  Swift, Will Rogers?  I don't think so.

Wolf

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> > Ari Davidow wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 22:14:31 +0100
> > > > From: Joachim(dot)Johow (at) t-online(dot)de (Joachim Johow)
> > > > Subject: A new klezmermusical in Berlin
> > > >
> > > > Hello dear klezmerfriends,
> > > >
> > > > we´re proud to anounce you our new klezmermusical : "aheim kejn
> gan-ejdn",
> > > > what means
> > > > "Back to the paradise", with many jiddish songs, klezmermusic ( of our
> big
> > > > klezmischpoche and the new klezkids)and jiddish humor.There take over
> 50
> > > > people (young and old) part and we´ve made a CD about the musical. If
> you are
> > > > interestet, you can visit our homepage with many pictures and music
> from
> > > > "Eden".
> > > >
> > > > www.violump.de/klezmischpoche/KlezBild/klezdexe.htm
> > > > or    www.Labsaal.de
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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