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Syracuse University |
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Joel Rubin |
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The Rothman Family Visiting Lecturer in Syracuse University’s Judaic Studies and Fine Arts programs, Joel E. Rubin’s interests are in the field of ethnomusicology, the anthropological and cultural study of music, particularly within the Klezmer tradition in Europe and the United States from the 19th century to the present-day. He is also a leading clarinetist, playing with various musical, including Klezmer, groups throughout the world. Forthcoming articles include “The Spirited Bulgar: Compositional Process in Jewish-American Dance Music of the 1910s and 1920s” and “The Spilman Manuscript: At the Intersection of Klezmer and Cantorial Music,” a research project that Rubin has been working on since 1999, which will be presented at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. In addition, Rubin will be taking part in numerous clarinet performances throughout the year, including at the Syracuse University Music School Convocation in Novermber. In the spring, Rubin will be teaching the class “Introduction to Jewish Musical Traditions” and will also be founding and directing the Syracuse University Klezmer Ensemble, a School of Music performing group, co-sponsored by Judaic Studies and Fine Arts.
Courses:
Introduction to Jewish Musical Traditions Klezmer Ensemble Selected Topics
Teaching:
Assistant Professor (Clarinet, Ethnomusicology, Jewish Studies), Ithaca College (sabbatic replacement for Michael Galvan),2004-05: . Rothman Family Visiting Lecturer in Judaic Studies (and Ethnomusicology), Syracuse University;Visiting Scholar, Cornell University Society for the Humanities (2004- present). Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Cornell University, Society for the Humanities/Department of Music; Curator, Yiddish music and theater film series, Cornell University. (Ithaca, NY), 2003-04 Founder and director, Cornell Jewish Music Ensemble; Consultant and clarinetist, Cornell Mid East Ensemble, 2003 - present Lecturer, Humboldt Universität, Department of Musicology (Berlin), 2003 Instructor, Victor Gollancz College, Berlin, 1991-1996 Adjunct faculty, clarinet, Portland State University and University of Portland, Oregon, 1980-1982
Books:
Jüdische Musiktraditionen (Jewish Musical Traditions), with Rita Ottens. Gustav Bosse Verlag, 2001. Klezmer-Musik, with Rita Ottens. Bärenreiter and dtv, 1999. Mazltov! Jewish-American Wedding Music for Clarinet. Schott Musik International, 1998. Kol Rino. Die Stimme des Jubels (The Voice of Jubilation), I-III. Jüdische und israelische Musik in der Schule. Handreichung für den Musikunterricht (Jewish and Israeli Music in the Schools. Manual for Music Instruction), with Rita Ottens. Berlin: Ministry of Schools, Youth and Sports, 1998.
Book Chapters: Heyser Bulgar (The Spirited Bulgar): Compositional process in Jewish-American dance music of the 1910s and 1920s, in: Proceedings of the scholarly colloquium "Begegnung mit Juedischer Musik und Musikern des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Encounter with Jewish Music and Musicians of the Twentieth Century). Series Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft (Musicological Writings; Musicology Institute of the University of Mainz). Mainz: ARE Musikverlag (2006, forthcoming). "In Search of Generational Memory: The Case of the Epstein Brothers, in: Proceedings of the conference ÒOnly in AmericaÓ on Jewish musical traditions in America, New York: Jewish Theological Seminary (forthcoming). "Im Zentrum eines alten Rituals": Die Klarinette in der Klezmer-Musik ("In the midst of an ancient ritual": The Clarinet in Klezmer Music); chapter for the catalog to the exhibition "Faszination Klarinette" celebrating the 300th anniversary of the invention of the clarinet. Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Berlin, 2004. "Ambivalente Indentitäten: Die amerikanische Klezmer-Bewegung als Reaktion auf Krise² (Ambivalent Identities: The American Klezmer Movement as a Reaction to Crisis), Proceedings of the annual meeting of the German National Committee of the International Council for Traditional Music, School of Cultural Studies, Department of Musicology, University of Lüneburg, Germany, 2004. "Can't You Play Anything Jewish?" Klezmer-Musik und jüdische Sozialisation im Nachkriegsamerika (Klezmer Music and Jewish Socialization in Post-War America), in: Jüdische Literatur und Kultur in Großbritannien und den USA nach 1945 (Jewish Literature and Culture in Great Britain and the USA Since 1945), ed. Beate Neumeier. No. 3 in the series Jüdische Kultur, Studien zu Religion, Geistesgeschichte und Kultur (Jewish Culture, Studies on Religion, History of Ideas, and Culture, ed. Karl. E. Gräzinger. Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998, pp. 189-219. Klezmer-Forschung in Osteuropa: damals und heute (Klezmer Research in Eastern Europe: Then and Now; with Rita Ottens), in: Juden und Antisemitismus im ästlichen Europa (Jews and Antisemitism in Eastern Europe), ed. Mariana Hausleitner and Monika Katz. No. 5 in the series Multidisziplinäre Veräffentlichungen (Multidisciplinary Publications) of the East European Studies Institute, Free University, Berlin. Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995, pp. 177-193.
"Jewish Diaspora", in: Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume VII, ed. John Shepherd et al., London: Continuum, 2005. "Sounds of the Vanishing World: Yiddish Music in Contemporary Germany". 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; in collaboration with Rita Ottens .http:csumc.wisc.edu/mki/Resources/Online_Papers MusicConfPapersMusicConfPapers.htm Klezmer: The Lost Archive of Moyshe Beregovski, in: World Music. The Rough Guide: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, Volume Two of the New Edition, London: Rough Guides, 2000, p. 587. Rumenishe shtiklekh (Romanian pieces). Klezmer music among the Hasidim in contemporary Israel, in: Judaism (Issue 185, Volume 47, Winter 1998), pp. 12-23. 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, City University, London, April 1994. (London: City University, 1997), pp. 133-164. Notes from the Field: Jewish Cultural Festivals in Europe, in: Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, vol. 15, nos. 1-2 (1992), pp. 32-34. The Clarinet in Klezmer Music, in: The Clarinet, Journal of the International Clarinet Society (May/June 1991), pp. 32-39.
Book review Georg Winkler, Klezmer. Merkmale, Strukturen und Tendenzen eines musikkulturellen Phaenomens, in: Lied und populaere Kultur/Song and Popular Culture. Jahrbuch des Deutschen Volksliedarchivs 49 (2004, forthcoming) (in English, with Rita Ottens). The Blessing over Coca-Cola: Between Secularity and Transcendence, in: Sh'ma (September 2005/Tishrei 5766): 10-11. Book review of American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots, ed. Mark Slobin, Berkeley /Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 2002, in: Journal of the American Musicological Society (forthcoming). CD review of "Klezmer: Cafe Jew Zoo" (Yale Strom) and "Klezmer Suite: Music of Sid Robinovitch" for American Music, Journal of the Society for American Music(forthcoming). Video review David Kaufman, The New Klezmorim: Voices Inside the Revival of Yiddish Music, in: 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, in: Yearbook for Traditional Music, Journal of the International Council for Traditional Music, vol. 34 (2002): 207-208. Contribution in Music of the World audio CD to accompany World Geography and World History Programs, Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2003. Book review Walter Salmen, "... denn die Fiedel macht das Fest". Jüdische Musikanten und Tänzer vom 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert ("... for the Fiddle makes the Celebration." Jewish Musicians and Dancers from the 13th to the 20th Centuries). Innsbruck, Edition Helbling 1991, in: Musica Judaica, Journal of the American Society for Jewish Music, New York, vol. 13 (5755/1993-94), pp. 98-108. Author of 6 concert programs for the concert series Traditional and Popular Jewish Music. Berlin Festival Organization, 1992. Book review Walter Salmen, "... denn die Fiedel macht das Fest." Jüdische Musikanten und Tänzer vom 13. bis 20. Jahrhundert, in: Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review, vol. 13, no. 2 (1991), pp. 23-24.
1996: 18th Bavarian Film Prize for documentary film on the Epstein Brothers Klezmer Orchestra (A Tickle in the Heart). 1996: Prix Europa for "Shalom" episode of Moskito, best television program, youth category (Song Verbotene Liebe). 1996: Artur Brauner Prize for film A Tickle in the Heart. 1995: German Record Critics' Prize (Doyres). 1994: Honored by Victor Gollancz Adult Education College, Berlin for outstanding achievement in multi-cultural adult education. 1992: German Record Critics' Prize (Yikhes). 1992: Bavarian Radio, "CD of the Year" (Yikhes). 1992: "Concert of the Year" (Epstein Brothers/Jüdische Lebenswelten, Tip Magazine, Berlin). 1991: Selected list of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (CD Brave Old World Klezmer Music). 1990: Selected list of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (Dave Tarras, Master of Klezmer Music, Volume I). 1987: Oregon Society of CPAs, President's Award, CPA examination. 1986: AICPA Elijah Watt Sells Silver Medal Award, CPA examination (second place out of 60,000 examinees). 1986: Portland State University, award for most outstanding post-baccalaureate student. 1978: State University of New York, College at Purchase, Music School Award (most outstanding student). 1978: Winner, concerto competition, State University of New York, College at Purchase (Mozart Clarinet Concerto).
Academic Conferences:
klezmer music", as part of conference "Early jazz brass playing and its influences" (Historic Brass Society/Institute for Jazz Studies, Rutgers). 2005: Paper "More famous than the Beatles": Polish klezmer musicians as negotiators of change, Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Atlanta). 2005: Paper "They danced it, we played it": Adaptation and Revitalization in Post-1920s New York Klezmer Music, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Washington, D.C.). 2005: Panel chair, "Liturgical Music as Pop, Parody and Personal Comment", Association for Jewish Studies annual conference (Washington, DC). 2004: Paper "'Jewish Jazz': a trope for multivalent constructions of race and ethnicity", Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Chicago). 2004: Paper "Golems on Broadway: Representations of religious symbolism in the American Klezmer Movement" as part of panel "Constructing Jewish Stars: Jewish Music and its Industries", Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Tuscon). 2003: Paper "The Limits of Generational Memory: The Case of the Epstein Brothers" as part of panel "The Musical Invocation of Nostalgia and Memory", Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Miami). 2003: Paper "Of Golems and Dybbuks: The Contemporary American Klezmer Movement as a Microcosm of the Religio-Secular World" as part of panel "Choosing Jewish: Ethnicity, Performance, and the Cultural Politics of Jewishness", American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (Chicago). 2003: Paper "'In Search of Generational Memory': The Case of the Epstein Brothers" at the "Only in America" conference on Jewish musical traditions in America, Jewish Theological Seminary (New York). 2003: Paper "What Is Jewish Music? The Quest for Identity on the Jewish-Music Internet List" as part of panel "What is Jewish About Jewish Art (Part II)", 35th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (Boston). 2003: Paper "Ambivalente Indentitäten: Die amerikanische Klezmer-Bewegung als Reaktion auf Krise" (Ambivalent Identities: The American Klezmer Movement as a Reaction to Crisis), International Council for Traditional Music, German National Committee annual meeting, School of Cultural Studies, Department of Musicology, University of Lüneburg, Germany. 2002: Paper "Sounds of the Vanishing World: Yiddish Music in Contemporary Germany", "Sounds of Two Worlds: Music as a Mirror of Migration to and from Germany" Conference, Max Kade Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with Rita Ottens. 2002: Panel chair, "Jewish Folklore and Culture: Recent Work"; paper "Violins, Golems and the Holocaust: The American Klezmer Movement as a Response to Crisis", Annual Conference of the American Folklore Society (Rochester). 2002: Paper at the Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, "Ambivalent identities: the American klezmer movement as a response to rupture" (Colorado). 2001: Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies "Minstrels of the Catering Hall: The transformation of the klezmer profession in the immigrant neighborhoods of New York City 1910-1930" (Washington, DC). 2000: Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology (Musical Intersections 2000), "Ornamentation in the 1920s commercial klezmer recordings of Jewish immigrant clarinetists in New York" (Toronto). 2000: Paper presented at the Symposium "'A tickle in the heart': Jüdische Musik", "Last of the epic story-tellers: Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras and the klezmer culture of the 1920s in New York" (Universität Witten-Herdecke, Witten, Germany). 1998: Paper presented at the international colloquium "Begegnung mit Jüdischer Musik und Musikern des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Encounter with Jewish Music and Musicians of the Twentieth Century), "Heyser Bulgar: Compositional process in Jewish-Americn dance music of the 1910s and 1920s" (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany). 1997: Panelist at the round table session "Towards a Typology of Klezmer Music" within the framework of the symposium "The Jewish Music Collections from Russia and Ukraine: The Retrieval of Lost Treasures", 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). 1997: Paper presented at the "Second International Conference on Jewish Music", "Back to the Future: Jewish-American clarinet music of the 1920s in light of the klezmer revival of the late 20th century" (City University, London). 1996: Paper presented at the Klezmer Research Symposium, "Rumenishe shtiklekh: klezmer music among the Hasidim in contemporary Israel" (Wesleyan University). 1994: Paper presented at the "First International Conference on Jewish Music", "Alts nemt zikh fun der doyne (Everything comes from the doina). The Rumanian-Jewish Doina: A Closer Stylistic Examination" (City University, London).
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