2009/2010 Scholarships
October 22nd, 2009
Scholarship information for 2009/2010 has been updated here. Application deadline is March 26, 2010.
New Course: Yiddish-American Popular Culture
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
As co-sponsors, the Center would like to announce the addition of an exciting interdisciplinary arts course offering next spring. The UW-Madison Arts Institute sponsors an interdisciplinary arts residency each semester, giving students the unique opportunity to work closely for an entire semester with a professional artist or arts scholar. These courses are for-credit and offered through multiple departments.
Our spring 2009 artist in residence is Henry Sapoznik, an award winning author, record, and radio producer and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music. He will be teaching a 3-credit course on “Yiddish-American Popular Culture, 1890-1950,” on Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:20-3:50PM in 1227 Engineering Hall. The course has no prerequisites, and will be available through the following departments: Jewish Studies 510-450, Art 448-004, Music 497-001, Folklore 530-004, Theatre and Drama 469-001
Course Description
East European Jews who arrived in America at the end of the 19th century with a nascent and vibrant popular culture came in contact with a simultaneously emerging — and equally influential — American equivalent. Using period media such as 78 rpm recordings, cartoons, films and radio broadcasts the class will examine how these two cultures interacted, influenced and portrayed each other.
East European Jews who arrived in America at the end of the 19th century with a nascent and vibrant popular culture came in contact with a simultaneously emerging — and equally influential — American equivalent. Using period media such as 78 rpm recordings, cartoons, films and radio broadcasts the class will examine how these two cultures interacted, influenced and portrayed each other.
Henry Sapoznik is an award winning author, record and radio producer and performer of traditional Yiddish and American music. A pioneering scholar and performer of klezmer music, Sapoznik founded both the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (1982) and KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program (1985). He is the recipient of the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism (2002) for the 10 part series “The Yiddish Radio project” and the 2000 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Scholarship for his book “Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World to Our World”. His CD anthologies “You Ain’t Talkin’ To Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music” (2005) and “People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938″ (2008) were nominated for multiple Grammy awards.
For more information on this course, please contact professor of record Douglas Rosenberg at rosend@education.wisc.edu or 265-4763.
For more information on Henry Sapoznik’s residency, please contact Kate Hewson at kahewson@wisc.edu or 263-9290 or see his website.
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