Philip Bohlman Bücher

Der vorliegende Band behandelt die sich wandelnde Identität der mitteleuropäischen bzw. aschkenasischen Juden am Beispiel der „jüdischen Volksmusik“. Beginnend in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, als sich die Emanzipation der jüdischen Gesellschaft in der Öffentlichkeit Mitteleuropas erkennen lässt, und endend mit dem Holocaust und der Zerstörung der jüdischen Kultur Mitteleuropas werden historische Texte zum Thema im Original oder in deutscher Übersetzung gebracht, durch Kommentare eingeleitet und ergänzt. Eine Geistesgeschichte jüdischer Volksmusik im Spannungsfeld zwischen den Kulturräumen der ost- und mitteleuropäischen Juden, zwischen Akkulturation und Zionismus, zwischen öffentlichen Gattungen wie Klezmermusik und Hochzeitsmusik und geschlossenen Gattungen wie Liturgie und Gesang im Familienkreis.

From folk music to worldbeat, world music holds the power to evoke the exotic and give voice to the voiceless. This new edition shows how dramatic political changes are affecting the ways in which people produce and listen to world music, and addresses how new technologies and the internet alter the way we disseminate and listen to it.

This book offers an extensive exploration of music's evolution across the globe, establishing a foundational narrative for a comprehensive history of all musical forms. It delves into diverse musical traditions, cultural influences, and the development of various genres, providing readers with a rich understanding of music's role in human society throughout history.

By gathering historical and musical fragments from a Europe torn apart by the Second World War and the Cold War, East German playwright Heiner Müller and West German composer Heiner Goebbels created Wolokolamsker Chaussee as a musical panorama that stretched across modern European history at a moment of international crisis. The question at the heart of the recording was prescient in the waning years of the Cold War, but it remains no less critical for the “crisis of Europe” today: Is it possible for Europe to be unified? A vast range of musical styles-from folk song to hip-hop, from the symphonic canon to heavy metal-coalesce in the five acts, which expose the wounds of European history while struggling musically to heal them. This extraordinary recording from 1989/90 not only captures the sound of a historical moment, but also powerfully enacts responses to it. 33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese, Brazilian, and European music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the Middle East, and more.