Klezmer America : Jewishness, ethnicity, modernity /

Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go int...

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsman: Freedman, Jonathan, 1954-
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: New York : Columbia University Press ©2008.
Länkar:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/free14278
Innehållsförteckning:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Angels, Monsters and Jews
  • 2. Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, and the Making of Ethnic Masculinity
  • 3. Antisemitism Without Jews
  • 4. The Human Stain of Race
  • 5. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto- Latino
  • 6. Transgressions of a Model Minority
  • 7. Asians and Jews in Theory and Practice
  • Conclusion: The Klezmering of America
  • NOTES
  • INDEX.