We are happy to announce that Dr Diana Matut will be teaching a new music class through the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL) in Michaelmas Term 2024.
Michaelmas Term 2024:
Yiddish Musics: The 20th and 21st Century
Mondays, 18:15-19:15 UK Time, Online via Zoom
This course focusses on the development of Yiddish musics mainly after Second World War.
The entire spectrum of Yiddish (mainly vocal) music making will be considered and organized according to topics such as: nostalgia, belonging and uprootedness; building the canon of Yiddish song performances; contemporary song cultures and cultural translations; Yiddish film music and music in Yiddish films; Yiddish activism; inner-Hasidic developments (women’s, religious and children’s songs); new Yiddish opera and theatre song – to name but a few.
This year-long course will also include the possibility for participant observation while exploring strategies of Yiddish song writing and/or song translations from or into Yiddish. It will explore, question and debate the “post” of “post vernacular” and “postmodernity”.
We will also welcome at least one guest per term. Invited are song writers, musicians and Yiddish activists.
Knowledge of Yiddish is helpful, but not required to take this course.
Applications are now closed for this course.