Description: The music of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras is iconic of American klezmer music. Their legacy has had an enduring impact on the development of the popular world music genre.
Brief description: JOEL RUBIN is Adjunct Researcher at the University of Bern, Institute of Musicology and Institute of Jewish Studies.
Review Quotes: Rubin's book, based on his 2001 PhD research but comprehensively updated, will doubtless stand as
one of the defining scholarly pillars in this occasionally messy field. Not only does it provide the most
detailed and fine-grained musical analysis of klezmer's stylistic and structural elements seen to date, but the fact that this analysis is based upon a particular and clearly-defined corpus reduces guesswork and in fact allows larger conclusions to be more effectively drawn.-- "IN GEVEB"