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A Jewish music record label

[Juneji Ito @tarkovsthey]

If you don't fw Klezmer i don't fw you

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@mycr_karenina Also I wouldn't call Daniel Kahn's performance of radical workers songs of the Jewish-American labor movement, or 11 year old Yair Keydar singing a Yiddish art song "nostalgia and self-parody"

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@mycr_karenina Heaps of great talent on that stage last night, but please don't take it as a monolith of what modern klezmer culture is. This is the type of program that ends up on that giant stage, but there's other types of programs on smaller stages all the time.

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@MeyerLabin @mycr_karenina bruh

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@BillyBlueBlaze1 @JOttoPohl1 What does Woody Allen have to do with klezmer?

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@JOttoPohl1 @BillyBlueBlaze1 What exactly do you mean by "social significance" here? it seems oversimple to say "yiddishkeit was largely destroyed" therefore klezmer lost significance... people didn't even call it "klezmer" until the 70s and there have been klezmorim playing simchas for a couple centuries

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@JOttoPohl1 @BillyBlueBlaze1 Klezmer certainly existed all through the 20th century. After the 78rpm era ended, key contributions in the 1950s and the rise of major Jewish record labels laid groundwork for the “modern” revivalists of the 1970s.

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@BillyBlueBlaze1 @JOttoPohl1 It's really a baffling stretch to say the Who and Supertramp featured anything remotely related to klezmer in their music

[gender-confused lesbian @theLinuxCol]

Sometimes you just gotta get tipsy and dance to klezmer music in your apartment by yourself

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@NEPHEWRXK CDBaby provides the same service

[Nate Klingenstein @GlenwoodNate]

@AngelicaOung @upholdreality Real tough to sell klezmer on an international audience. Heck, pretty tough to sell it on a domestic audience...

[キャロサンプ @infocallithump]

【たまには宣伝】梅津和時率いる総勢19名による日本で唯一のクレズマーオーケストラ、BETSUNI NANMO KLEZMERの1996/98年にリリースされたCD3タイトル、2008年リイシューの廉価盤が追加プレスされました。特製紙ジャケットは今回の追加製造分で終了かもしれません。まだお持ちでない方はお急ぎ下さい。

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@adamrsweet_ @MotronaCherkas What language does that word come from? What culture?

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@adamrsweet_ Please do

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@adamrsweet_ https://t.co/R61SJEPP2t

[Halyna Cherkas @MotronaCherkas]

Klezmer is Ashkenazi music or Jewish musicians.

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@BreadAlien1 @ShrimpinVamp Lmao ok I’ll trust the TF2 Wikipedia page for whether some random song is klezmer

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@BreadAlien1 @ShrimpinVamp No

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@ZachWeiner I don't like getting into "you haven't tried the right strain yet"-ism, but I think in general dismissiveness about ethnic culture is not good or well intentioned

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@ZachWeiner I don't get why Klezmer is often your straw man for self-evident aesthetic crappiness. For some of us it's at the core of an ethnic heritage that we care deeply about maintaining and elevating. (authenticity argument aside)

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@RonSCantor weird AI generated image from a christian account showing exactly not what a 1933 German seder looked like