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"Tenement Songs", lecture by Mark Slobin, NYC, 12 Feb 2017

Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants

Ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin discusses the rise of Yiddish popular music in vaudeville dives, at the Yiddish theater and on parlor pianos in tenement homes during the era of mass migration to the United States. Sing along as Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Lauren Brody and Jake Shulman-Ment bring this music to life.

Sunday, February 12, 2017 at 3 PM
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge St.,
New York, NY

$14 adults; $10 students/seniors

tel: 212.219.0302

Posted by Ari Davidow on February 12, 2017 3:00 PM |

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