Community, Archive, Lineage: Belonging to Yiddish folk music through rupture and repair

Workshop with Ira Khonen Temple

In this workshop we’ll talk about finding, selecting and performing repertoire in Yiddish, from the nuts and bolts to the whys and wherefore.  We’ll look at some of Ira’s translations and adaptations on their recent album Strange Tongue and discuss some of the differences between literary translation and translation for performance.  Also discussed: Why and how to queer a text? And how do the “non-performance” elements that surround a text (for example its author and composer, history, past usages, meaning) become part of the performance itself?

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