The Essential Klezmer
Subtitle: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant Garde
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: May 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781565122444
Subjects: Folk Music; Social history; Music/Songbooks; Ethnomusicology; Music; Reference; History & Criticism - General; Music / History & Criticism; History and criticism; Klezmer music
First sentence: Like most Americans my age (I was born in 1960), I was raised on a steady diet of popular music, beginning with the Beatles and progressing steadily onward through whatever the pop charts threw at me.