"The Essential Klezmer" by Seth Rogovoy is the all-time bestselling guide to the vibrant contemporary style of music based on Old World Yiddish wedding music
Seth Rogovoy is the author of The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover’s Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000), the all-time bestselling guide to the vibrant genre of contemporary music with roots in Old World Yiddish wedding music.
Seth is widely recognized as a leading authority on klezmer and Jewish music and has lectured and taught classes and workshops about the music, its history, social context, and the culture surrounding it, across the U.S. and in England at colleges, cultural centers, conferences, museums, bookstores, synagogues, JCCs, and book groups.
Seth continues to write about klezmer and new Jewish music for a variety of publications, including Forward and Pakn Treger (the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center), and is available to speak to groups about klezmer, new Jewish music, the secret Jewish history of rock ‘n’ roll, and the Jewish roots of Bob Dylan’s music.
Seth’s most popular presentation is his one-man multimedia program, Rockin’ the Shtetl, which takes audiences on a journey through the evolution of klezmer from Old World shtetls to New World nightclubs and concert stages, tracing the development of the music along the way.
