alte.klezmor.im
Klezmer music history researcher, library technician from Vancouver BC. Doing research into klezmer musician biographies & immigration, Indonesian left-wing history, music manuscripts, compositions & copyright etc. Wikipedia editor. Social justice minded.
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and the aforementioned FAU one of course, which is still huge and very invaluable if you are looking for mid 20th century , still in copyright American Jewish music
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they have some interesting stuff - in the domain of Jewish music digital collections I think the biggest are still Dartmouth
djsa.dartmouth.edu , Mayrent Collection search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AMay... , @archive.org and of course the thousands of obscure things uploaded to youtube.
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a lot of us have used that FAU collection going back 15 years because it was one of the first easily accessible digitized collections those of us not living in NY or wherever could access remotely. it's been surpassed I think, because they essentially haven't updated their site in 15 years either🕵️
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Matus Lichtenstein was also a semi obscure old NY klezmer musician, who came up here and there in my YIVO research playing concerts for landsmanshaftn and more recently came up again as an expert witness in a klezmer copyright case from the 20s I'm researching.
adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ma...
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Nice
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just a little nugget of info about this strange folly of a lost cause, but my twin brother texted me from Montreal earlier this month to say he saw a demonstration of around 100 people with signs calling for Reza Pahlavi's restoration heh😯
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there were definitely a lot of historical feuds going back to Eastern Europe. they were a competitive bunch.
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Finally my moment to mention the paper I'm writing about Max Leibowitz's early 1920s klezmer copyright infringement lawsuit against Columbia Records and Naftule Brandwein
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Can you fucking imagine being an eight year old crossing the southern border and getting separated from your parents and sent to South Sudan
This is some of the most morally reprehensible shit I can even conceive of