Swedish Klezmer and Jewish Identity with David Kaminsky
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In this episode we talk with David Kaminsky, whose article “Just Exotic Enough,” was recently published in the journal, Ethnomusicology. David interrogates the discourse of two Swedish, non-Jewish chamber klezmer bands, drawing out the complexities of heritage, identity, and cultural ownership. As a musical tradition cultivated by Jews in the east European diaspora, but now widely played by both Jewish and non-Jewish musicians throughout America, Europe, and elsewhere, klezmer has specific interest for David, who self-identifies as an American Jewish scholar. David Kaminsky is an assistant professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Merced.
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