Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski

by Mark Slobin (Editor), Mark Slobin (Translator)

Overview

Here, translated into English for the first time, is a cultur-al record of the folk music of Eastern Europe. This volume consists of some of Ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski's responses to Jewish folk music in its living context during the 1930s, including essays on Ukrainian musical influences, klezmer music, and characteristic scale patterns. Also included are Beregovski's anthologies of hundreds of folk songs with full Yiddish and English song texts. Each song is carefully notated exactly as it was sung and is accompanied by Beregovski's notes on origins and variants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815628682
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	10/01/2000
Series:	Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	598
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

Mark Slobin is professor of music at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants and Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
	Note on Transliteration and Translation	xv
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Folk Songs and Instrumental Tunes
1.	Jewish Folk Music (1934)	19
	Introduction	19
	Songs	42
	Song Texts	45
	Song Text Translations	243
	Annotations to the Songs	270
2.	Jewish Folk Songs (1962)	285
	Preface	285
	Introduction	287
	Folk Songs with Texts	303
	Song Text Translations	407
	Instrumental Tunes	421
	Textless Songs	449
	Annotations to the Songs and Music	491
Part 2	Essays
3.	The Interaction of Ukrainian and Jewish Folk Music (1935)	513
4.	Jewish Instrumental Folk Music (1937)	530
5.	The Altered Dorian Scale in Jewish Folk Music (1946)	549
Appendix A	Selected Bibliography on the Music Culture of the Eastern European Jews	569
Appendix B	Archival Resources for the Study of Eastern European Jewish Folk Music	573
	Index of First Lines of Songs in the Song Collection	575
	Index of Instrumental Tunes	579

Editorial Reviews

Not often does one encounter a book intended for a specialized audience that stimulates general interest. Old Jewish Folk Music offers insights into Soviet and Jewish history, and general musicology. . . . The format of the book is scholarly and well planned and the trans-lation is fluid.-- "Judaica Book News"

From the Publisher

Not often does one encounter a book intended for a specialized audience that stimulates general interest. Old Jewish Folk Music offers insights into Soviet and Jewish history, and general musicology. . . . The format of the book is scholarly and well planned and the trans­lation is fluid.

Judaica Book News

Slobin (music, Wesleyan) presents folk song collections and essays by Soviet-Jewish ethnomusicologist Beregovsky. Translated into English for the first time, a short introduction discusses controversies over Beregovsky's place in Stalin-era politics and ethnography. Songs are rendered in the 1930s Soviet system for transliterating Yiddish rather than the contemporary Western system. English translations follow in separate sections. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Old Jewish Folk Music comprises the collections and writings of ethnomusicologist Moshe Beregovski as edited and translated into English by Mark Slobin, professor of music at Wesleyan University. Featured are insights into Soviet and Jewish history and musicology surveying the notes and lyrics of three hundred folk songs. Each song is carefully notated exactly as it was sung, and is accompanied by Beregovski's notes on origins and variants. Old Jewish Folk Music is a superb work of impeccable scholarship and highly recommended to students of Judaic and Yiddish traditions in music, Ukrainian musical influence, and klezmer music.