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. 

Mark Slobin is the Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University. Professor Slobin is an ethnomusicologist whose fields are Jewish music and Asian music. He has been visiting professor at NYU, Berkeley and Harvard and has served as editor of the journal, Asian Music (1972-87). Professor Slobin was awarded the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award (Foundation for Jewish Culture) in 2006. Slobin has published at least 17 books and innumerable articles. 

Hybrid program (in person and on Zoom). 

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