Schwartz envisioned as he built the collection. Although there are ethnomusicology texts on the separate traditions to help identify performers and composers, it takes a carefully curated ensemble such as the Martin Schwartz Collection to help “connect the dots” by providing both musicological examples for comparative study, and information on performers and composers working together across genres the fact that this treasure trove now sits among other collections with similar supporting materials here at UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections – particularly the Benno Häupl, Kutay Derin Ku ğay, and Joel Ackerman collections – provides unique opportunities for music researchers whether investigating the individual genres or for comparisons of the sort Dr. The idea is that there was more of a multicultural “Venn diagram” of musicians and composers influencing each other in these times and geographies than the marketing strategies of the record companies imply – selling, as they were, by targeting newly individuated nationalities, and ethnic communities in diaspora. Romany (“Gypsy”) music from the same geographic area.Ashkenazi Jewish “klezmer” music from Eastern Europe, especially from areas that were at times part of the Ottoman Empire, and.Greek “smyrneika” (during the Empire) and “rebetika/rembetika” (post-Ottoman) music.
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