[78-L] Klezmer

[Taylor Bowie]

That is interesting...hard to imagine anyone thinking that somebody like 
Dave Tarras was anything but first class,  all the way!

Maybe the word started out the same way the American word "jazz" 
did...happily the original negative connotations are all long gone.

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "yves francois" <aprestitine at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Klezmer was:Newspeak (was:Racially 
OffensiveLanguage/Robeson)


> 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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