Joel Rubin - Publications

Publications

Books:

Jüdische Musiktraditionen (Jewish Musical Traditions), co-authored with Rita Ottens. Gustav Bosse Verlag, 2001.

Klezmer-Musik, co-authored with Rita Ottens. Bärenreiter und dtv, 1999.

Mazltov! Jewish-American Wedding Music for Clarinet. Schott Musik International, 1998.

Edited Volumes:'

Rubin, Joel E. and James Loeffler (eds.). Proceedings of the international academic conference “Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60.” Jerusalem: Min-Ad. Israel Studies in Musicology (peer-reviewed, online journal) Vol. 7 Number II (2008–09) http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/mu/min-ad/.

Book Chapters:

Rubin, Joel E. “Like a string of pearls”: Brass instruments in Jewish instrumental klezmer music. In: Studies in Jazz 58: Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz, and Other Popular Traditions, ed. Howard T. Weiner (series editors Dan Morgenstern and Edward Berger, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press 2009: 77-102.

Rubin, Joel E. "They danced it, we played it": Adaptation and revitalization in post-1920s New York klezmer music. In: Studies in Jewish Civilization 19: "I Will Sing and Make Music": Jewish Music and Musicians Throughout the Ages. Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins, and Jean Cahan. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2008: 181-213.

Rubin, Joel E. Heyser Bulgar (The Spirited Bulgar): Compositional process in Jewish-American dance music of the 1910s and 1920s. In: Jüdische Musik und ihre Musiker im 20. Jahrhundert (Jewish Music and Its Musicians in the 20th Century), ed. Wolfgang Birtel, Joseph Dorfman and Christoph-Hellmut Mahling. Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft (Musicology Institute of the University of Mainz). Mainz: ARE Musikverlag (2006).

Rubin, Joel E. Ambivalente Indentitäten: Die amerikanische Klezmer-Bewegung als Reaktion auf Krise and Trauma (Ambivalent Identities: The American Klezmer Movement as a Reaction to Crisis and Trauma). In: Berichte aus dem ICTM-Nationalkomitee Deutschland XIII: Traditionelle Musik und Mode(n) – Freie Berichte, ed. Marianne Bröcker. Bamberg: Universitätsbibliothek, 2004: 89-115.

Rubin, Joel E. “Im Zentrum eines alten Rituals”: Die Klarinette in der Klezmer-Musik ("In the midst of an ancient ritual”: The Clarinet in Klezmer Music). In: Faszination Klarinette. Munich/Berlin: Prestel Verlag/Musikinstrumenten-Museum, 2004: 219-230.

Rubin, Joel. “Can’t You Play Anything Jewish?” Klezmer-Musik und jüdische Sozialisation im Nachkriegsamerika (Klezmer Music and Jewish Socialization in Postwar America). In: Jüdische Literatur und Kultur in Großbritannien und den USA nach 1945, ed. Beate Neumeier. Jüdische Kultur, Studien zu Religion, Geistesgeschichte und Kultur 3, ed. Karl. E. Grözinger. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998: 189-219.

Rubin, Joel und Rita Ottens. Klezmer-Forschung in Osteuropa: damals und heute (Klezmer Research in East Europe: Then and Now). In: Juden und Antisemitismus im östlichen Europa, Hg. Mariana Hausleitner and Monika Katz. No. 5 in the series Multidisziplinäre Veröffentlichungen (Multidisciplinary Publications) of the East European Studies Institute, Free University, Berlin. Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995: 177-193.

Articles:

Rubin, Joel E. “What A Jew Means in This Time”: Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras and the Shifting Aesthetics in the Contemporary Klezmer Landscape, in: Proceedings of the 2007 Conney Conference on Jewish Arts. Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture. Published online by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing in collaboration with Wendt Library (2009). http://conferences.library.wisc.edu/index.php/conney2007/issue/current

Rubin, Joel E. Review essay “Music is the Pen of the Soul”: Recent Works on Hasidic and Jewish Instrumental Klezmer Music. AJS Review 29:1, Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies, 2005: 145-158.

Rubin, Joel E. Jewish Diaspora. In: Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume VII, ed. John Shepherd et al., London: Continuum, 2005: 74-92.

Ottens, Rita in cooperation with Joel E. Rubin. “Sounds of the Vanishing World: Yiddish Music in Contemporary Germany”, in web-based proceedings, “Sounds of Two Worlds: Music as a Mirror of Migration to and from Germany” conference, Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004. http://csumc.wisc.edu/mki/Resources/Online_Papers/MusicConfPapers/MusicConfPapers.htm

Rubin, Joel. Klezmer: The Lost Archive of Moyshe Beregovski. In: World Music. In: The Rough Guide: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, Volume Two of the New Edition, London: Rough Guides, 2000: 587.

Rubin, Joel. Rumenishe shtiklekh (Romanian pieces). Klezmer music among the Hasidim in contemporary Israel. Judaism (Issue 185, Volume 47, Winter 1998): 12-23.

Rubin, Joel. "Alts nemt zikh fun der doyne" (Everything comes from the doina). The Romanian-Jewish Doina. A Closer Stylistic Examination. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Jewish Music, ed. Steve Stanton, City University, London, April 1994. (London: City University, 1997): 133-164.

Reviews and Other Writings:

Book review of Max P. Baumann, Tim Becker and Raphael Woebs, Musik und Kultur im jüdischen Leben der Gegenwart, Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2006, in: PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. 14 (2008).

CD review of “Klezmer: Café Jew Zoo” (Yale Strom) and “Klezmer Suite: Music of Sid Robinovitch”, in: Journal of the Society for American Music 1 (4) (November 2007): 546-553.

Book review of Jane Mink Rossen and Uri Sharvit, A Fusion of Traditions: Liturgical Music in the Copenhagen Synagogue, Odense M: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2006, in: Yearbook for Traditional Music 39 (2007): 178-181.

Book review of American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots, ed. Mark Slobin, Berkeley /Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2002. Journal of the American Musicological Society (forthcoming).

CD reviews of “The Western Sephardi Liturgical Tradition As Sung by Abraham Lopes Cardozo”, “The Hasidic Niggun As Sung by the Hasidim”, and “Oh, Lovely Parrot! Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala”. Yearbook for Traditional Music 38 (2006): 142-43 (forthcoming).

Book review Georg Winkler, Klezmer. Merkmale, Strukturen und Tendenzen eines musikkulturellen Phänomens. Lied und populäre Kultur. Jahrbuch des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs 49 (2004): 285-321 (in English, with Rita Ottens).

The Blessing over Coca-Cola: Between Secularity and Transcendence. Sh’ma (September 2005/Tishrei 5766): 10-11.

Video review David Kaufman, The New Klezmorim: Voices Inside the Revival of Yiddish Music. Ethnomusicology, Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, vol. 47, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2003): 284-286.

Book review Yaacov Mazor, The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, The Jewish Music Research Centre, 2000. Yearbook for Traditional Music 34 (2002): 207-208.

Book review Walter Salmen, Jüdische Musikanten und Tänzer vom 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert... “denn die Fiedel macht das Fest” (Jewish Musicians and Dancers from the 13th to the 20th Century). Innsbruck, Edition Helbling 1991. Musica Judaica, Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music, New York, vol. 13 (5755/1993-94): 98-108.

Book review Walter Salmen, Jüdische Musikanten und Tänzer vom 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert... “denn die Fiedel macht das Fest”. Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, vol. 13, no. 2 (1991): 23-24.