{"product_id":"klezmers-afterlife-an-ethnography-of-the-jewish-music-revival-in-poland-and-germany-9780199314744","title":"Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany","description":"Klezmer in Europe has been a controversial topic ever since this traditional Jewish wedding music made it to the concert halls and discos of Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest and Prague. Played mostly by non-Jews and for non-Jews, it was hailed as \"fakelore,\" \"Jewish Disneyland\" and even \"cultural necrophilia.\" \u003cem\u003eKlezmer's Afterlife\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to investigate this fascinating music scene in Central Europe, giving voice to the musicians, producers and consumers of the resuscitated klezmer. Contesting common hypotheses about the klezmer revival in Germany and Poland stemming merely from feelings of guilt which emerged in the years following the Holocaust, author Magdalena Waligorska investigates the consequences of the klezmer boom on the people who staged it and places where it occurred. Offering not only a documentation of the klezmer revival in two of its European headquarters (Kraków and Berlin), but also an analysis of the Jewish \/ non-Jewish encounter it generates, Waligorska demonstrates how the klezmer revival replicates and reinvents the image of the Jew in Polish and German popular culture, how it becomes a soundtrack to Holocaust commemoration and how it is used as a shining example of successful cultural policy by local officials. Drawing on a variety of fields including musicology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, and cultural studies, \u003cem\u003eKlezmer's Afterlife\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to a wide range scholars and students studying Jewish culture, and cultural relations in post-Holocaust central Europe, as well as general readers interested in klezmer music and music revivals more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Magdalena Waligorska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199314744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMagdalena Walig?rska\u003c\/strong\u003e is a cultural historian and sociologist working in the field of Jewish heritage revival, Polish\/German-Jewish relations and cultural translation. She graduated from Jagiellonian University in Krak?w (Poland) and Dalarna University in Falun (Sweden). In 2009 she received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). She has co-edited \u003cem\u003eCultural Representations of Jewishness at the Turn of the 21st Century \u003c\/em\u003eand published, among others, in \u003cem\u003eEthnomusicology, Jewish Cultural Studies\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEast European Politics and Societies\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently Assistant Professor of East European History and Culture, University of Bremen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42992714940531,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":73.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_a426c276-e6f6-4fd3-bf7b-06fd04c56f51.jpg?v=1744715549","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/klezmers-afterlife-an-ethnography-of-the-jewish-music-revival-in-poland-and-germany-9780199314744","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}