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Chosen Voices: the Story of the American Cantorate
… 1989 … Liturgy … History … Singers … Synagogue … America … USA … Singer … Cantor … Ashkenazi … Mark Slobin … Chosen …
Tenement Songs: the Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants
… Song … 1982 … Song … History … Songs … America … Yiddish … USA … Immigrants … Pop … Mark Slobin … Tenement Songs: the …
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy? Identity and Melody at an American Simhat Torah Celebration
… Torah … Torah … America … Ethnomusicology … Field work … USA … Pop … Liturgical music … Popular songs … Haqafot … …
The Broadway Musical: a Critical and Musical Survey
… University Press … … 1 … 1990 … Music … Theater … America … USA … Stage … Musicals … American … Joseph Peter Swain … The …
An Old Faith in the New World: a Portrait of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954
… Press … … 1482 … 1955 … Liturgy … History … America … USA … Spanish-Portuguese … Spanish … Portuguese … …
Saul Brown (Pardo): First Known Chazan in New York
… 1482 … 1936 … Hazzanut … Biographies … History … America … USA … Spanish-Portuguese … David de Sola Pool … Bruno …
Mir trogn a gezang! Favorite Songs of Our Generation with Yiddish texts and music, parallel transliterations, historical background, synopses, guitar chords
Introduction by Theodore Bikel, illustrations by Cecelia G. Waletsky.
Yiddish title:…
Dachau Song: Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
The story of Vienna-born Herbert Zipper, a conductor in Austria and Germany, who…
Klezmer music in America: revival and beyond
Klezmer music has experienced changing musical content and social function since the…