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College Course in Texas on klezmer

For Jewish music fans in the neighborhood of College Station, Texas this fall, the Department of Performance Studies is offering a new course that might be of interest: MUSC 200: INTRODUCTION TO KLEZMER MUSIC < /br> Dr. Jeffrey L. Wollock (Visiting Scholar in Performance Studies) < /br> MWF 10:20-11:10 in Room 402A Academic �The Music Room� < /br> For more information, please contact Dr. Wollock: < /br> Wollock@nativecouncil.com>

The klezmer was the traditional wedding musician of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. As versatile folk professionals, they performed at other functions both Jewish and non-Jewish. The distinctive music of the klezmer came to this country with the great East European Jewish emigration of the late 19th-early 20th century, taking root mainly an New York and Philadelphia. By the 1970s it had nearly died out, but the last 25 years has seen a revival of so- called �klezmer music� as an international phenomenon. This course will explore the history, musical forms, and cultural context of traditional klezmer music, as well as such cultural phenomena as adaptation, assimilation, social memory, revival, and �world music.�