American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots by Mark Slobin

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots

Mark Slobin

252 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history music informative reflective medium-paced
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Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had ...

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