Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany
Author:   Magdalena Waligorska (Assistant Professor of East European History and Culture, Assistant Professor of East European History and Culture, University of Bremen, Germany)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 October 2013
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Author:   Magdalena Waligorska (Assistant Professor of East European History and Culture, Assistant Professor of East European History and Culture, University of Bremen, Germany)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780199314744


ISBN 10:   0199314748
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1 Klezmer Music and Its Traditions in Krakow and Berlin ; 2 Appropriated Music ; 3 Meeting the Other, Eating the Other: Klezmer as a Contact Zone ; 4 The Grammars of Vernacular Klezmer ; 5 Klezmer and the Politics of Remembering ; 6 People In-Between ; 7 Triangles of Relief. Klezmer and the Negotiation of Identities ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; List of Interviews ; Index

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This book is exceptionally readable considering the complexity of the heavily nuanced subject area ... This book is a good read not only for social science scholars ... but also anyone interested in cultural history. Philip Palmer


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Magdalena Waligórska is a cultural historian and sociologist working in the field of Jewish heritage revival, Polish/German-Jewish relations and cultural translation. She graduated from Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) and Dalarna University in Falun (Sweden). In 2009 she received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). She has co-edited Cultural Representations of Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century and published, among others, in Ethnomusicology, Jewish Cultural Studies and East European Politics and Societies. She is currently a : Assistant Professor of East European History and Culture at the University of Bremen.

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