Re: Yiddish men's love songs - Yale talk

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

So you're saying there's a genre of Yiddish Underworld music (just as there
is in Greek music)?
Just for grins (since Yale is a long drive from here) can you give a couple
of examples?
                                                                    ek


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From: "itzik gottesman" <gottesman (at) yiddish(dot)forward(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Yiddish men's love songs - Yale talk


Concerning Yiddish folksongs, men's and womens.
Though Yiddish love-folksongs are generally a women's genre, there is
an exception. The love songs of the underworld, thieves songs. this
category breaks down into two categories, songs of thieves, all men,
and songs of prostitutes, all women. Many of the thieves songs, take
womens love songs and adapt them for the man's point of view. An
interesting phenomenon, and you can hear all about it at a lecture I
am giving on "Yiddish folklore of the underworld" at Yale University
tomorrow, Wed. april 24. at 4:00 at the Romance Languages Lounge. At
noon , I will give at more informal talk in Yiddish at the Slifka
Center on Yiddish folklore and nationalism.

,ÝItzik Gottesman

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