Mark Slobin presents "Tenement Songs"
During the 1880-1920 migration of eastern European Jews to the US, the immigrants built an in-house music industry on the Lower East Side that offered pianos and phonographs on the installment plan, commercial Yiddish music records, and hundreds of folios of sheet music, often from Yiddish theater shows, to play at home. Professor Mark Slobin will discuss this music.