Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 216
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4422-5839-6 • Hardback • June 2018 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
978-1-4422-5840-2 • eBook • June 2018 • $45.50 • (£35.00)
Tina Frühauf serves on the faculty at Columbia University and is associate executive editor at Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale in New York. She serves also on the doctoral faculty of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. An active scholar and writer, Frühauf’s research is centered on music and Jewish studies, especially in religious contexts but also art music, historiography, and Jewish community (through participatory action research), often crossing the methodological boundaries between ethnomusicology and historical musicology.
Series Editor Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sounds of the Synagogue
Chapter 2: Seasoned with Song: At Home and At the Jewish Table
Chapter 3: The Yiddish Stage
Chapter 4: On the Silver Screen
Chapter 5: Fiddling on Broadway
Chapter 6: On the Concert Stage—Classical Music and the Jewish Experience
Chapter 7: Jews Who Rock the Stage
Chapter 8: Pubs and Clubs
Chapter 9: Beyond A Single Venue—Klezmer Everywhere
Selected Reading
Selected Listening
Index
About the Author
Experiencing Jewish Music gives the reader a stimulating review of the history and sociology of Jews in America through the diversity of their music.
— Jerusalem Post
Highly readable and engaging . . . Frühauf offers a wonderfully rich tour of a very broad subject, providing terrific examples of representative Jewish music from holidays and tradition as well as classical music and popular culture.
— Library Journal
A practical, clear approach . . . Experiencing Jewish Music in America is a useful introduction to the rich world of American Jewish music culture.
— Forward
No fuddy duddy encapsulation here. Ms. Frühauf begins with the first Jewish congregation established in North America in 1654, then proceeds to trace Jewish music as it came to be heard through the screen, concert hall, and rock stages. The name of the game here is to identify the diversity and complexity of this music. Heck, there’s even a section on Broadway. How can you resist?”
— Evanston Round Table
Frühauf writes with scholarly precision, historical depth and musical understanding. This book is a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in Jewish music in America.
— San Diego Jewish World
This first-ever, one-volume introduction to the large and fascinating subject of Jewish music in America is innovative, thorough, and lively.— Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus, Wesleyan University