klezmer

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One of the most conspicuous examples of such transmission is klezmer, which is recognizable at least back to the nineteenth century and possibly a great deal farther.

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  1. noun A traditionally itinerant Jewish folk musician of eastern Europe performing in a small band, as at weddings.
  2. noun The Jewish folk music played by small, traditionally itinerant bands.

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  • "Furioso", "Forza" and "Triste", with subtle ethnic touches like the klezmer flavour to the clarinet in "Fuoco" balanced by the occasional use of electronic keyboard tones. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • When Italians fell for klezmer, Francesco Spagnolo tuned them in to the forgotten sounds of their own people. —  Tablet Magazine
  • And on the other end of this ever widening spectrum, there's the iconoclastic collective, Jewdas (jewdas. org), which puts on events in squats that mix radical Jewish learning and wild klezmer-DJing, and whose website viciously lampoons the Jewish great and good.
  • This is particularly the case in music, and especially in klezmer - a musical tradition that was developed by Jewish communities in eastern and southeastern Europe that's been integrated into more mainstream music much more over the last several years. —  CHARTattack:News Feed
  • Berner spent a great deal of time studying klezmer, but the songs on —  CHARTattack:News Feed
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  1. Yiddish, from Mishnaic Hebrew kəlê zemer, musical instruments : kəlê, pl. bound form of kəlî, instrument; see kll in Semitic roots + zemer, music, song; see zmr in Semitic roots.
 

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