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Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45
… Provides a brief history and overview of the ghetto and its music culture as well as analysis, lyrics, and music of dozens of compositions from the ghetto. … 81 … 1 … Urbana and Chicago … University of Illinois Press … … 1992 … Folk songs … Holocaust … Yiddish … …
Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia
… … 25 … 1 … Philadelphia … University of Pennsylvania Press … … 1971 … Folk music … Sephardi … Samuel G. Armistead … Joseph H. Silverman …
Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition I: Epic Ballads
… … 1 … Berkeley … University of California Press … … 1986 … Folk music … Sephardi … Samuel G. Armistead … Joseph H. Silverman …
A Song of Longing: an Ethiopian Journey
… of her personal experience while conducting ethnomusicological research in Ethiopia around the time of the … (1974). … 42 … 1 … Urbana, Il. … University of Illinois Press … … 1991 … History … Personal narrative … Ethiopian … …
American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
… … 101 … 1 … Los Angeles … University of California Press … … 2002 … Klezmer music … Klezmer … Eastern Ashkenazi … Mark Slobin … American …
Chosen Voices: the Story of the American Cantorate
… (cantors) and the institutions of training. Also discusses musical aspects of the repertoire. … 101 … 1 … Urbana … University of Illinois Press … … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – …
Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World
… Stalin, and lost out to assimilation in America. Klezmer music is now experiencing a tremendous new spurt of interest … and non-Jews recreating this restless volatile, and vibrant musical culture. Firmly centered in the United States, … and links to a tradition? How do economics, artistic expression, and the evocation of the past interact in …
Tenement Songs: the Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
… A ...look at the musical world of immigrant Jews, who, in finding and creating an expressive medium for self-identity, helped shape and give life to American popular culture (from 'Ethnomusicology') … 101 … 1 … Urbana … University of Illinois …
Voices of the People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong
… folksong. … 1 … 568 … Illinois … University of Illinois Press … … Scores, Music scores … Score, Music scores … 2000 … Biography … Eastern Europe … Folk …
Musica Mizrakhit, Israeli Rock and National Culture in Israel
… briefly the power of thenationalistic world-view on music-making in Israel as an example of its power almost everywhere. Two major music cultures in Israel - musica mizrakhit and Israeli rock … while the cosmopolitan nature of the other exposes it to pressures to become 'national'. … 57 … 3 … 3 … 275-284 … … …