Hankus Netsky Klezmer Musical Instruction sku-43908603

Hankus Netsky's Klezmer: Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia is a hardcover listed under Musical Instruction. Drawing on interviews, archival research and recordings, it examines musicians, their working lives and the music they played at local Jewish celebrations.

Netsky discusses klezmer's place in Philadelphia's Jewish immigrant culture, its later revival, sacred and secular music, and the city's “Russian Sher” medley. The book includes musical transcriptions and follows the tradition from the immigrant era through its mid-century decline and revival beginning in the 1980s. SKU: sku-43908603.