[78-L] Klezmer was:Newspeak (was:Racially Offensive Language/Robeson)

[yves francois]

Mike
A very happy new year to you
Was not klezmer was originally a designation of an itinerant Jewish folk musician (a sort of "back alley woodsman"), I seem to recall that some of the survivors did not like the term at all and saw it to mean a second class musician.
All the best
Yves


--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Newspeak (was:Racially Offensive Language/Robeson)
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 6:55 PM
> 
> Closer to our theme of 78s is another word which seems to
> have popped up 
> for no reason -- Klezmer.  For the entire 78 era and well
> thru most of 
> the LP era, this music was referred to as Freileich.  This
> was seen in 
> song titles, album titles, musical descriptions on record
> labels, liner 
> notes, and record catalogs. and even in the names of
> musical groups.  
> Then suddenly in the mid-80s there was a documentary on PBS
> about Henry 
> Sapoznik and several musical groups and this mystery word
> Klezmer shows 
> up over and over for the first time.   What was wrong with
> the word 
> Freileich  which we already knew???  In the recent book
> about Jewish LPs 
> "And We Shall Know Them By The Trail Of Their
> Vinyl" they use the term 
> Freileich and show many records that used that term in the
> 50s -70s.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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