Spring 2015
Evan Rapport—Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York
April 2
Evan Rapport—Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York
11 a.m.
Alumni Lounge, Brooklyn College Student Center
For the 30,000 Bukharian Jews now residing in New York, music is an essential part of their communal self definition, and changes to musical activities in classical, popular and religious spheres help us understand the circumstances of Bukharian Jews and other immigrants to New York at the turn of the 21st century.
Evan Rapport is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
