Klezmer! : Jewish Music from Old World to Our World [With CD]

In the Beginning... The European Roots of Klezmer Music 1(30) Da Capo 5(11) The Vocal Tradition of Instrumental Music 16(4) Constantinople: The Vienna of the Balkans 20(1) From Shtetl to Stage 21(4) Marching Songs 25(2) Rovne: Musical Capital of Volhynia 27(4) Lebn Zol Columbus: Yiddish Music in the New World 31(36) ``I Landed and Became a Vaudeville Musician'' 31(8) The Rise of Yiddish Popular Culture 39(12) Broadsides, Sheets, 78s 51(16) The Golden Age of Yiddish Popular Music 67(46) Of Artists and Repertoire 70(16) The Rise of the Modern Klezmer Ensemble 86(17) George Gershwin and Jewish Jazz 103(10) Yiddish Melodies in Swing: 1930s to 1940s 113(38) ``Af Der Luft'': Radio to the Rescue 120(8) A Miss and a Hit 128(6) Playing American 134(4) The Sound in Europe 138(3) Yidl Mitn Fidl: Jewish Music Onscreen 141(10) Twistin' the Freilachs 151(16) Borscht Belters 160(7) From the Catskill Mountains to the Blue Ridge Mountains (and Back!) 167(30) CETA: The Woodstock-Era WPA 174(3) Generation to Generation: Finding the Veteran Players 177(7) Klezmer Pilgrimage 184(7) Der Yiddisher Caravan: Klezmer Music on the Road 191(2) Hollywood in Brooklyn: Chosen for The Chosen and Over the Brooklyn Bridge 193(4) The Revival 197(30) Klezmer Goes to College: The Klezmer Conservatory 198(3) YIVO's Cultural Reclamation 201(2) Klezmer Rejoins the Club 203(7) Kapelye Does Germany 210(3) KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program 213(8) The Klezmer Documentaries 221(1) South of the Border: Kapelye in Mexico 222(5) The Future for a Music With a Past 227(20) By Any Other Name 230(1) The Emergence of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Klezmer 231(5) The Holocaust Recordings 236(2) Yiddish Radio Rides Again 238(3) The Station That Spoke Your Language 241(1) The Yiddish Sgt. Pepper 242(2) KlezKamp and the Rise of the Yiddish Cultural Literacy 244(3) The Sound Heard 'Round the World 247(18) The Classical World Takes Note 250(3) The Mother Tongue, Sung 253(3) Old World 1989 256(3) Yiddish at the Smithsonian 259(2) Rites of Passage 261(4) APPENDIX ONE: Modes and Scales 265(6) Melodic and Harmonic Modes 266(5) APPENDIX TWO: Tants Nit, Yidelekh: Dance Music With No Dancers 271(4) Dances and Dance Rhythms 272(3) Acknowledgements 275(2) End Notes 277(6) About the CD 283(2) Index 285