klezmer music in Germany (colloquium Cornell University)

[Joel E. Rubin <rubin...>]

Dear people of the list,

Fitting into the framework of the recent (and recurring) discussions on
Jewish/klezmer music in Germany, I like to announce the forthcoming
colloquium of our Music Department at Cornell University on Jewish music in
Germany. As I have seen from the questions of Roger Reid and the answer of
Sam Weiss, it seems that little information on scholarly research regarding
this topic has reached the U.S. Rita Ottens and I have written two books on
Jewish musical traditions, both of which contain relevant portions on the
reception and production of Jewish music in today's Germany. Ottens has also
published two articles in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik on the topic [both of
which are available for downloading at
http://www.rubin-ottens.com/downloads.html, for those of you who can read
German], and a large scholarly article should soon be coming out as part of
the web-based proceedings of a recent conference at the University of
Wisconsin in 2002. 

For those of you within driving distance of Ithaca:

Music Department Colloquium, Monday, Feb. 9, 4.15 p.m. at Lincoln Hall, Cox
Music Library, Room 316:
Rita Ottens (City University, London)
"In the Beginning was Auschwitz": The Yiddish Music Movement in
Post-Unification Germany as a Racial Discourse

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Here is the relevant bibliographic information:

Juedische Musiktraditionen (Jewish Musical Traditions), Rita Ottens & Joel
Rubin.
Gustav Bosse Verlag, 2001.

Klezmer-Musik, Rita Ottens & Joel Rubin. Bärenreiter/dtv, 1999.


"Ikonografie der Andersartigkeit": Rassismus und Antisemitismus in der
deutschen Popularmusik, Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik, 4/02, July-August 2002:
54-57.


Der Klezmer als ideologischer Arbeiter. Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik, 3/98
(Mai-Juni): 26­29


Gut shabes,

Joel Rubin

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Joel E. Rubin, Ph.D
Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow
Cornell University
Department of Music
101 Lincoln Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA

Tel.: (607) 255-7102 (office)
rubin (at) rubin-ottens(dot)com

http://www.rubin-ottens.com



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