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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival Claire Marissa Gogan Thesis Submitted to the Faculty Of
To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival Claire Marissa Gogan Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In History David P. Cline, Co-Chair Brett L. Shadle, Co-Chair Rachel B. Gross 4 May 2016 Blacksburg, Virginia Keywords: Identity, Klezmer, Jewish, 20th Century, Folk Revival Copyright 2016 by Claire M. Gogan To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival Claire Gogan ABSTRACT Klezmer, a type of Eastern European Jewish secular music brought to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century, originally functioned as accompaniment to Jewish wedding ritual celebrations. In the late 1970s, a group of primarily Jewish musicians sought inspiration for a renewal of this early 20th century American klezmer by mining 78 rpm records for influence, and also by seeking out living klezmer musicians as mentors. Why did a group of Jewish musicians in the 1970s through 1990s want to connect with artists and recordings from the early 20th century in order to “revive” this music? What did the music “do” for them and how did it contribute to their senses of both individual and collective identity? How did these musicians perceive the relationship between klezmer, Jewish culture, and Jewish religion? Finally, how was the genesis for the klezmer revival related to the social and cultural climate of its time? I argue that Jewish folk musicians revived klezmer music in the 1970s as a manifestation of both an existential search for authenticity, carrying over from the 1960s counterculture, and a manifestation of a 1970s trend toward ethnic cultural revival. -
Klezmerquerque 2014 February 14Th-16Th, 2014
KlezmerQuerque 2014 February 14th-16th, 2014 R2G Klezmer Trio: Dr. Joel Rubin (clarinet & ethnomusicologist- Charlottesville/Switzerland), Pete Rushefsky (Tsimbalom/Eastern European hammered dulcimer-NYC), & Steven Greenman (violin, vocals & award- winning composer-Cincinnati) R2G is a dynamic new trio formed by longtime stars of the klezmer revival, Joel Rubin (clarinet), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbal /hammered dulcimer), and Steve Greenman (violin). R2G performs original compositions and improvisations in addition to their own arrangements of the classic East European Jewish instrumental klezmer music and mystical hasidic nigunim (melodies of spiritual elevation). With its virtuosic style and sumptuous, richly ornamented sound, their music is at once a meditation on the Russian-Jewish musical legacy and an expansion of it into the present. The trio also experiments with extended structures, such as "concert form klezmer" suites that meld the traditional klezmer genres with Ottoman Turkish concepts of art music for listening. The concert form expands the expressive possibilities of klezmer music and provides a pathway for the musicians to create performances that develop more extended musical narratives. But the group can cut it up on the dance floor as well. "Inspiring, jaw-dropping and foot stomping," raved Beth Cohen, director of the annual KlezmerQuerque Festival. List to the trio: Beregovski Shers (trad.) Ahavas Oylom (Greenman) Bay di toyren fun beys-hamikdosh (trad.) Peshrev (Rushefsky) Tish Nign (trad.) Nign for Sabbath and Holidays Joe Rubin Joel Rubin has been one of the leading figures in the international klezmer movement as performer, scholar, author and educator for the past thirty years, earning accolades from sources as diverse as klezmer giants Dave Tarras and Max Epstein, international clarinet soloist Richard Stoltzman, avant garde composer John Zorn, and Nobel Prize Laureate and poet Roald Hoffmann. -
Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras and the Shifting Aesthetics in the Contemporary Klezmer Landscape
WHAT A JEW MEANS IN THIS TIME: Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras and the shifting aesthetics in the contemporary klezmer landscape Joel E. Rubin University of Virginia Clarinetists Naftule Brandwein (1884-1963) and Dave Tarras (1895-1989) were the two leading performers of Jewish instrumental klezmer music in New York during the first half of the 20th century. Due to their virtuosity, colorful personalities and substantial recorded legacy, it was the repertoire and style of these two musicians that served as the major influence on the American (and transnational) klezmer revival movement from its emergence in the mid-1970s at least until the mid-1990s.1 Naftule Brandwein playing a solo in a New York catering hall, ca. late 1930s. Photo courtesy of Dorothea Goldys-Bass 1 Dave Tarras playing a solo in a New York catering hall, ca. early 1940s. Photo courtesy of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York. Since that time, the influence of Brandwein and Tarras on contemporary klezmer has waned to some extent as a younger generation of klezmer musicians, many born in the 1970s and 1980s, has adopted new role models and the hegemony of the Brandwein-Tarras canon has been challenged.2 In particular, beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present, a parallel interest has developed among many contemporary klezmer musicians in the eastern European roots of the tradition. At the same time, a tendency towards innovation and a fusing of traditional klezmer music of various historical periods and regions with a variety of styles has emerged. These include jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, Hip-Hop and Balkan music. -
Mcintire Department of Music Newsletter
University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music Newsletter: 2015-16 Edition Letter from the Chair: A “Banner” Year of Music Synergies This year, for the first time in our nearly 100-year history, students and parents arriving for Family Weekend and Days on the Lawn saw "Music" proudly displayed above the steps of Old Cabell. The banners set the tone for a year in which we celebrated the incredible diversity and quality of our department. We created mash-up, synergistic programming blending various areas of our research. We promoted our scholars, composers, performers and technologists as superstars using a new website and publicity engine. We launched a brand new Performance Concentration for Majors. And we actively engaged in a dialog about the place of Music in the 21st Century University. We challenged ourselves to ask "What is Music?" through a Flash Seminar, and to think globally about the impact of our work. All of these efforts have contributed to a really fantastic year. I invite you to visit the new website and explore the vision. The website features a significant redesign with powerful new tools such as an Audio Lounge, a Music Life Blog, and a dynamic front page that evokes different roles of music in the University. The first slide (also the cover image of this newsletter) is accompanied by the caption, "Music: a place to gather”, and it shows hundreds of students gathered in front of Old Cabell Hall. We strive to make our Music Department a safe space for creative learning, free imagination, celebration of knowledge and good spirited gathering. -
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
et al.: Journal of Hip Hop Studies June 2016 Published by VCU Scholars Compass, 2016 1 Journal of Hip Hop Studies, Vol. 3 [2016], Iss. 1, Art. 1 Editor in Chief: Daniel White Hodge, North Park University Senior Editorial Advisory Board: Anthony Pinn, Rice University James Paterson, Lehigh University Book Review Editor: Gabriel B. Tait, Arkansas State University Associate Editors: Cassandra Chaney, Louisiana State University Jeffrey L. Coleman, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Monica Miller, Lehigh University Associate & Copy Editor: Travis Harris, PhD Student, College of William and Mary Editorial Board: Dr. Rachelle Ankney, North Park University Dr. Jason J. Campbell, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Jim Dekker, Cornerstone University Ms. Martha Diaz, New York University Mr. Earle Fisher, Rhodes College/Abyssinian Baptist Church, United States Dr. Daymond Glenn, Warner Pacific College Dr. Deshonna Collier-Goubil, Biola University Dr. Kamasi Hill, Interdenominational Theological Center Dr. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis Dr. David Leonard, Washington State University Dr. Terry Lindsay, North Park University Ms. Velda Love, North Park University Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II, Hamline University Dr. Priya Parmar, SUNY Brooklyn, New York Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, North Park University Dr. Rupert Simms, North Park University Dr. Darron Smith, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Dr. Jules Thompson, University Minnesota, Twin Cities Dr. Mary Trujillo, North Park University Dr. Edgar Tyson, Fordham University Dr. Ebony A. Utley, California State University Long Beach, United States Dr. Don C. Sawyer III, Quinnipiac University https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jhhs/vol3/iss1/1 2 et al.: Journal of Hip Hop Studies . Sponsored By: North Park Universities Center for Youth Ministry Studies (http://www.northpark.edu/Centers/Center-for-Youth-Ministry-Studies) Save The Kids Foundation (http://savethekidsgroup.org/) Published by VCU Scholars Compass, 2016 3 Journal of Hip Hop Studies, Vol. -
The Jewish Experience in Classical Music: Shostakovich and Asia
The Jewish Experience in Classical Music The Jewish Experience in Classical Music: Shostakovich and Asia Edited by Alexander Tentser The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies Publication Series 1 The Jewish Experience in Classical Music: Shostakovich and Asia, Edited by Alexander Tentser This book first published 2014 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2014 by Alexander Tentser and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-5467-0, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5467-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ....................................................................................................... vii Alexander Tentser Acknowledgements .................................................................................... xi Introduction .............................................................................................. xiii A Legacy of Honor and Risk in Jewish Music Janet Sturman Part I: Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich and Jewish Music: The Voice of an Oppressed People .......................................................................................................... 3 Alexander Tentser Self-Imagery and Resilience: -
Yedies 189 Winter 99
hshgu, hshgu, No. 189 IVOIVO Winter 1999 YYNEWS hHuu† pui Alter Kacyzne’s Photographs YIVO Celebrates Publication of Historic Album IVO began its 75th Anniversary year with a Ycelebration for Poyln — Jewish Life in the Old YIVO Institute Country, a new book of pre-Holocaust photo- for graphs taken throughout Poland by the renowned Yiddish author and photographer Alter Kacyzne. Jewish (A selection of photographs from the book appears Research on pages 18 – 21.) Edited by YIVO Chief Archivist hHshagr Marek Web and published by YIVO in cooperation uuhxbaTpykgfgr with Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, Poyln has thbxyhyuy ≈ thbxyhyuy received excellent reviews from the Forward, the Atlanta Jewish Times and the Canadian Jewish News hHuu† and has been named a Book-of-the-Month selection. Its initial printing in English is 17,000 copies. Marek Web, Chief Archivist and editor of Poyln, with YIVO “A simultaneous German edition of Poyln was Board member and author Fanya Gottesfeld Heller. released just in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair,” Kacyzne had a remarkable sensibility for his Board Chairman Bruce Slovin told the 100 people subjects, whether in studio portraits, on a Warsaw who attended the November 4th reception and street, or in a shtetl marketplace. He was known to book signing in the Center for Jewish History have been unusually painstaking in his work, library. “Marek Web has done Herculean labor in never satisfied until he had achieved exactly the bringing this book to publication.” right effect. This new book provides a window “We are very proud to be here today,” Dr. Carl into the lost world of Polish Jewry through the Rheins, YIVO Executive Director, commented. -
2017 Brochure
The Folks Who Put it All Together... Faculty Andreas Schmitges – Presenter, Yiddish Dance Sebastian Schulman – Presenter k A two Asya Vaisman Schulman – Yiddish Song Founders Shane Baker – KlezKabaret Host Cookie Segelstein – Violin Hy and Sandy Goldman Adrian Banner – Accompaniment Richard Barshay – Percussion Anna Shternshis – Presenter Zilien Biret – Clarinet Mark Slobin – Presenter Cover Artwork: Avia Moore 2017 Artistic Director, Laurentian Retreat Grant Smith – Percussion Michael Winograd Dan Blacksberg – Trombone, Presenter Nikolai Borodulin – Yiddish Language Emily Socolov – Visual Arts The animal musicians between Peter Sokolow – Piano Artistic Director Joanne Borts – Yiddish Song the covers are based on Judy Bressler – Yiddish Song Madeline Solomon – KinderKord Frank London marginalia artwork from 13th Stuart Brotman – Bass Ilene Stahl – Clarinet Eric Stein – Plucked Strings and 14th Century illuminated Christian Dawid – Clarinet Founding Artistic Director and Senior Artistic Advisor Joshua D.C. Dolgin – Yiddish Song Deborah Strauss – Violin manuscripts. Jeff Warschauer Sruli Dresdner – KlezKids, Yiddish Song Yuri Vedenyapin – Yiddish Language Rabbi Avi Finegold – Presenter Josh Waletzky – Yiddish Song Photo Credits: Josh Dolgin, Registrar Enrico Fink – Italian Jewish Music Cantor Jeff Warschauer – Cantorial, Plucked Avia Moore. Sandy Goldman Sarah Mina Gordon – Yiddish Song Strings Avery Gosfield – Italian Jewish Music Steven Weintraub– Yiddish Dance Map: Avia Moore Board of Directors Jim Guttmann – Bass Michael Wex – Presenter -
Department of State
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 2201 C Street, NW., 20520, phone (202) 647–4000 JOHN F. KERRY, Secretary of State; born in Denver, CO, December 11, 1943; education: graduated, St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH, 1962; B.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1966; J.D., Boston College Law School, Boston, MA, 1976; served, U.S. Navy, discharged with rank of lieutenant; decorations: Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat ‘‘V’’, three Purple Hearts, various theatre campaign decorations; attorney, admitted to Massachusetts Bar, 1976; appointed first assistant district attorney, Middlesex County, 1977; elected lieutenant governor, Massachusetts, 1982; married: Teresa Heinz; Senator from Massachusetts, 1985–2013; commit- tees: chair, Foreign Relations; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Finance; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; appointed to the Democratic Leadership for 104th and 105th Congresses; nominated by President Barack Obama to become the 68th Secretary of State, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 29, 2013. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Secretary of State.—John F. Kerry, room 7226, 647–9572. Deputy Secretary.—Antony J. ‘‘Tony’’ Blinken. Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources.—Heather Anne Higginbottom. Executive Assistant.—Lisa Kenna, 647–8102. Chief of Staff.—Jonathan Finer, 647–5548. AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR WAR CRIMES ISSUES Ambassador-at-Large.—Stephen J. Rapp, room 7419A, 647–6051. Deputy.—Jane Stromseth, 647–9880. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF PROTOCOL Chief of Protocol.—Amb. Peter Selfridge, room 1238, 647–4543. Deputy Chiefs: Natalie Jones, 647–1144; Mark Walsh, 647–4120. OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS Director.—John M. Robinson, room 7428, 647–9295. Deputy Director.—Gregory B. Smith. BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM Coordinator.—Tina Kaidaow (acting), room 2509, 647–9892. -
Klezkanada K
KKLEZKANADA AUGUST 24-30, 2009 KLEZMER MUSIC.YIDDISH SONG.DANCE.VISUAL ARTS.YIDDISH LANGUAGE.YIDDISH STUDIES.LITERATURE.FILM. KLEZMER MUSIC.YIDDISH SONG.DANCE.VISUAL ARTS.YIDDISH LANGUAGE.YIDDISH STUDIES.LITERATURE. W ELCOME KlezKanada Summer Institute 2009 Founder/Chair of the Board Hy Goldman Artistic Director Jeff Warschauer Founder/Registrar Sandy Goldman Program Coordinators: Hands-on Workshops and Instrumental Music - Jeff Warschauer Vocal Music - Joanne Borts Lectures and Nayer Dor Programming - Rokhl Kafrissen East Moves West - Sebastian Schulman and Asya Vaisman Yiddish Language Programming - Nikolai Borodulin Dance Program - Steve Weintraub and Pete Rushefsky (music) Visual Arts - Tine Kindermann KlezKinder Programming - Lisa Mayer and Sruli Dresdner Concerts - Michael Wex David A. Stein Memorial Film Scholarship Program - Garry Beitel Cabaret and Stage Management - Heather Klein Internet Services, KlezKanada Newsletter - Ari Davidow Audio-Visual - Hartley Wynberg KlezKanada Youth Scholarship Program and On-Site Administrative Director - Avia Moore Der Nayer Dor Gala Concert - Avia Moore and Jason Rosenblatt with Michael Wex and Heather Klein The Discovery Project - Hankus Netsky with Shayn Smulyan and Emily Lam. Loyf Tsunoyf - Joanne Borts Board of Directors: Bob Blacksberg, Hy Goldman (Chair), Sandra Goldman, Adriana Kotler, David Novek, Bernard Rosenblatt, Roslyn Rosenblatt, Herschel Segal, David Sela, Robert Smolkin, Eric Stein, Irwin Tauben, Jack Wolofsky, Stan Cytrynbaum (legal advisor), Marvin B. Goldsmith (CA), Tzipie Freedman (secretary), Theodore Bikel (honourary) Brochure/Poster Design and Editing - Avia Moore Art and Photo Credits: Nina Becker, Sarah Katz, Avia Moore, Leah Netsky, David Kauffman dition innovation PAGE 3 WELCOME! - Zayt bagrist! Welcome to KlezKanada 2009! Now in our 14th year, KlezKanada has grown from a small festival to an internation- ally-recognized institution with a world-class faculty, a one-of-a-kind scholarship program and enthusiastic participants from all corners of the world. -
Performing, Engaging, Knowing, August 26 to 29, 2020 Program (August 24, 2020)
Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education th Study Group on Applied Ethnomusicology, 7 Meeting Performing, Engaging, Knowing, August 26 to 29, 2020 Program (August 24, 2020) Due to the current situation the meeting will be held as an online conference with pre-produced contributions and live discussions on the planned dates. Information for non-participants interested in joining the online meeting There is the possibility for a restricted number of persons to access the online meeting without presenting. Anyone wishing to register as a guest should send an email to [email protected] with a scan of an identity document (students/staff of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts do not need to send this scan). The Local Organizing Committee has the right to reject requests without justification. The limited access to the conference is due to the capacity of the exchange. We have received many requests for participation, and the number of participants has already exceeded the set maximum. We therefore ask for your understanding that after 24 August we cannot grant any more guests access to the meeting platform. Information on contributions and live discussions All contributions are pre-produced and will be available before August 26 on the meeting platform. To protect the contributors’ rights do not download or copy any content of this meeting platform. Written materials, videos, and other materials that are presented may not be shared with third parties. Written comments and responses about a contribution can be added to the corresponding forum anytime from the moment of its upload until September 13. -
Rubin CV 11.2020
CURRICULUM VITAE Joel E. Rubin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Music • Director of Music Performance McIntire Dept. of Music • PO Box 400176 University of Virginia • Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176 Cell phone: (434) 882-3161 • Office: (434) 924-6499 • Fax: (434) 924-6033 • [email protected] FACULTY APPOINTMENTS • 2020-present: Adjunct Researcher, Institute for Musicology and Institut für Judaistik, University of Bern, Switzerland. • 2012-present: Associate Professor of Music/Director of Music Performance, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia; Director, University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble; Jewish Studies Faculty. • 2006-2012: Assistant Professor of Music/Director of Music Performance, McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia; Director, University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble; Jewish Studies Faculty. • 2005-06: Lecturer (Jewish Studies, Ethnomusicology; Spring 2006), Ithaca College; Director, Syracuse University Klezmer Ensemble (Spring 2006). • 2004-05: Assistant Professor (Jewish Studies, Ethnomusicology, Clarinet; Spring 2005 sabbatic replacement), Ithaca College. • 2004-06: Rothman Family Visiting Lecturer in Judaic Studies (and Ethnomusicology), Syracuse University; Visiting Scholar, Cornell University Society for the Humanities. • 2003-06: Founder and director, Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble; Consultant and clarinetist, Cornell Mid East Ensemble. • 2003-04: Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell University, Society for the Humanities/Department of Music (Ithaca, NY); Curator, Yiddish music and theater film series, Cornell University. • 2003: Lecturer, Humboldt Universität, Department of Musicology (Berlin). • 1991-1996: Instructor (music, theater, film), Victor Gollancz College, Berlin. • 1980-1982: Adjunct faculty, clarinet, Portland State University and University of Portland, Oregon. 1 SUMMARY OF OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY • 1991-present: Author, consultant and composer/arranger. • 1990-1992: Organizer of concert series and festivals.