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carkner

@carkner@klezmor.im

library technician working in Vancouver BC. admin of klezmor.im. independent history researcher interested in klezmer musicians, migration, Yiddish literary world, Dutch East Indies political & journalism history, Indonesian anticolonial movement. believe in public history & wikipedia. 📜😯🌈🎻 He/him. Current projects about Klezmer music publishing, American Klezmer composers and copyright of the 1910s-20s

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carkner, to random
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Online lecture May 18 & 19th -- the Queer History of Klezmer
https://klezcalifornia.org/events/queer-history-of-klezmer/

carkner, to FolkMusic
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Alicia Svigals, friend, gay icon and #klezmer #violin legend is putting out her first trad album since 1997 😏🎻🌈
#fiddle #FolkMusic #JewishMusic
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/fidl-afire

carkner, to violinist
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Photo a friend sent me of Wolf Shilkret (Schildkraut, ~1866-1925), #Klezmer violinist and father of Victor Records notable Nat Shilkret
#violinist #fiddler #MusicHistory

carkner,
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Not many recordings of Wolf (or much known about him). Here's one with a very Romanian feeling recorded in 1923 in New Jersey.

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ADWOQTHQX64WAF8A/AMT63YFTTYMGJH82

carkner, to random
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Edit: RESOLVED!
Can anyone help me get the PDF of this book chapter? I cannot find it on any academic database, it's only in partial preview on Google books and the ebook costs 68€ 🥺

Neil W. Levin, “The Russians are Coming! The Russians Have Stayed! A Little Known Episode in the History of the New Jewish National Music School: The Tour of the Palestine Chamber Music Ensemble ‘Zimro,’” in Jüdische Kunstmusik im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Jascha Nemtsov (Harrassowitz, 2006).

carkner, to Seattle
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Heading down to Seattle today for a 4 day weekend to participate in Seattle Yiddish Fest which seems rather expanded in scope this year. A few highlights for me are seeing Ilya Shneyveys, accordionist and multi-instrumentalist who'll be teaching and leading events, and Michael Wex, the Canadian Yiddishist and raconteur.
#klezmer #Yiddish #MusicFestival #Seattle
https://www.seattleyiddishfest.com/

carkner,
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I knew about this newly published book of old #Klezmer because two colleagues of mine helped typeset it, but it was going to be too expensive to ship to Canada. So I was glad to be able to buy a copy from Hoffman's great granddaughter Susan Watts who is teaching at the festival this weekend.🎺🎶 Great stuff!

(More info here: https://www.susanwattsmusic.com/performances )
#FolkMusic #Philadelphia #JewishMusic #Yiddish

A spiral bound book of Klezmer music titled "The Hoffman Book: Joseph Hoffman Klezmer Collection (1927)"

carkner,
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My latest purchase at Seattle Yiddish Fest is this excellent tote bag from another festival😸🎣

carkner,
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Last night this cellist Lori Goldston was accompanying the Portland singer Jack "Yankl" Falk in the Seattle bands concert at this festival. Damn was she amazing, I couldn't even follow many of her lines and counter melodies but the overall effect was unlike anything I've seen live.

Someone mentioned Oh yeah she played on Nirvana's unplugged album 🤯
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Goldston

carkner,
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Festival finished last night and I'm heading back to Canada this morning😭 the final concert was livestreamed and was a lot of fun, including a Michael Wex comedy routine that had the house in tears.
Concert starts around 42 min into the livestream.

https://www.youtube.com/live/qhA4as8zExM?feature=shared

carkner, to FolkMusic
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Wow.. Shared by an accordionist friend. Putting aside the exoticising tone of the newsreel, this is a fascinating glimpse of Roma life in New York at the end of the 1930s. The accordionist is recognizable as Mishka Ziganoff, a Christian Roma klezmer musician & recording artist of the 1910s and 1920s. Too bad the audio quality is so bad.

https://youtu.be/jpZRQvDVBY8?si=kvNTSw3bu7fn4NnM

carkner, to random
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🥺 📰 I was thinking I want to finally start writing an article about the failed lawsuit by musician Max Leibowitz against Columbia Records for copyright infringement. It's strange but I can't find any coverage of it in the press at the time. Maybe it was just too niche of a thing, despite it involving some music celebrities (Leibowitz, Schwartz and Brandwein).
(here's a 1925 article I found about a similar copyright case about the theatre composition Eli, Eli)

carkner,
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I don't know if I'm searching the wrong terms; nothing under the names of the people involved, name of the melody or Columbia.

According to modern dictionaries the word for copyright in is דרוקרעכט (drukrekht), אויטאָררעכט ,(oytorrekht), מחבר רעכט (mekhaber rekht) etc. However those bring up even less press results than the very literal transliteration קאָפּירײַט (kopirayt)...

carkner,
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Just a general question for people etc., do you have suggestions for interesting articles about music copyright and folk / public domain music, especially in a historical context? Just looking for inspiration...

I found some interesting stuff in academic databases, but keywords like folk music copyright history bring up such a wide set of results that I'm sure I'm missing a lot of the most interesting things.

carkner, to random
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Interesting find in a 1915 issue of Forverts. It's an ad for a Christmas music ball at the Berditshever Lodge in New York in 1915 boasting of having "union musicians from Pedutser's orchestra, under the leadership of Max Knofel"

Pedutser (A. M. Kholodenko) was a celebrity violinist and composer from Berdychiv who died in 1902 and never came to America. His band often contained 20 musicians so it's possible some ended up as union musicians in New York by the time of WWI.🤔

carkner, to romania
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On FB someone shared this Youtube video I have watched a million times and now I have to watch it again.
Some grainy handheld video of a wedding in Romania during the communist era with some of the most legendary folk musicians of the era casually jamming, including my personal musical hero Toni Iordache on , the top violinist Ion Drăgoi. and Ionică Minune (the only one of the 3 still alive and playing). What a wedding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcABG6gmCTM

carkner, to Ukraine
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Here's a guy who has fascinated me for a while. Dmitri Konovich Kornienko (1888-1942) AKA James Korney; in 1930s New York he was a mini celebrity, putting out prolific 78rpm records on of "Oriental" music on all the major labels and leading radio orchestras in various contexts.

Born in Elizavetgrad, Kherson province of the Russian Empire (now Kirovohrad, Ukraine), maybe lived in Georgia for time, then Istanbul, and finally sailed for NYC in 1923 with his wife Anna.

dukepaaron, to Seattle
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"The 29th Festival is making its much-anticipated return March 2-17 at Mercer Island's Stroum Jewish Community Center, the SJCC announced this week."

https://www.425magazine.com/arts-entertainment/seattle-jewish-film-festival-2024-mercer-island/article_c94a02f0-c061-11ee-a061-1f5e61e37405.html

carkner,
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@dukepaaron re: that final event listed, I've seen two of Alicia Svigals silent film live performance things but I think I didn't see this one. (I'm on a board with her so I know her a bit but not best friends or anything.) It's a strange viewing experience, she does a good job but it's hard to get into the mindset and pace of silent film a century later.🤔 especially one of the two I saw where they had pieced together recovered footage for a lost film and there were gaps in the plot.

carkner, to FolkMusic
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If you know of someone who would be interested🥸The Klezmatics are looking for a project manager lol. Legendary band.

https://www.klezmatics.com/projectmanager

drahardja, (edited ) to ai
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is gunking up the web, especially for lesser-represented languages. Spammers are creating garbage English language content using LLMs, then translating it into multiple languages at the same time, using Machine Translation, presumably to generate clickbait ad revenue in several languages at once.

In English, such gunk accounts for some 9% of total sampled web content. But in languages with less representation on the Internet, the figures could be much higher. In Malay, it’s something like 26%, and in Swahili it’s nearly HALF of everything found on the web.

Paper [pdf]: “A Shocking Amount of the Web is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749.pdf

carkner,
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@drahardja I started noticing this a few years ago when I would write a Wikipedia article about a niche historical figure, try to go back a few months later to see if I missed anything and in google searches I would find a bunch of Thai or other language results which I quickly realized had machine translated my article.

carkner, to random
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absolutely beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7foEy5OYFI&ab_channel=SelinY%C3%BCcesoy

carkner,
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listening to some of her back videos and they are all good, but this one is really excellent too. whadda voice.

https://youtu.be/e009BzySu1Q?si=v4zRatdYui2LB1my

carkner, to FolkMusic
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Funny, I posted this obscure music industry news paragraph from 1921 that I had come across in my research about New York klezmers and my friend Paul Gifford (expert on cimbaloms and Hungarian music among other things) sent me this photo of an earlier incarnation of this same band. He got the photo from the great-grandson of the cimbalom player Bela Nyary (1872-1923), who emigrated to the US from Hungary and worked on the vaudeville circuit.

old black and white staged photo of a 7-man string band on a stage wearing tuxedos, with piano and cimbalom at the middle of the group and the bandleader standing in the middle with his violin.

carkner,
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@emmaaum He in this case being the Zoltan from above?
It's OK, I have many LPs that sound similar to this 😅 it's a whole thing

carkner,
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@emmaaum oh now I understand. What are the names you're thinking of ? I used to download a lot from some Moldovan piracy site before it disappeared from one day to the next😂 since then it's generally youtube where I listen to them (almost all Electrecord albums have been put up by the label itself, lot of piracy of other random stuff).
looking at my actual LPs maybe the most restaurant crooner thing I have are a few Gica Petrescu LPs I got in an antique store over there.

carkner,
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@emmaaum glad to hear it. and don't worry about the names if they're not at hand wherever you are. was just curious

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