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The song is not the same: Jews and American popular music. An Annual Report Volume 8 /
This volume of the Casden Institute's The Jewish Role in American Life annual series introducesnew scholarship on the long-standing relationship between Jewish-Americans and the worlds ofAmerican popular music. Edited by scholar and critic Josh Kun, the essays in the volume blendsingle-artist i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West lafayette :
Purdue University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume of the Casden Institute's The Jewish Role in American Life annual series introducesnew scholarship on the long-standing relationship between Jewish-Americans and the worlds ofAmerican popular music. Edited by scholar and critic Josh Kun, the essays in the volume blendsingle-artist investigations with looks at the industry of music making as a whole. They range from Jewish sheet music to the risqué musical comedy of Belle Barth and Pearl Williams,from the role of music in the shaping of Henry Ford's anti-Semitism to Bob Dylan's Jewishness,from the hybridity of the contemporary "Radical Jewish Culture" scene to the Yiddishexperiments of 1930s African-American artists. Contents: Foreword (Gayle Wald); Introduction(Josh Kun); "Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars, and other Tales from the Jewish Sheet-Music Trade" (Jody Rosen); “'Dances Partake of the Racial Characteristics of the People Who Dance Them' : Nordicism, Antisemitism, and Henry Ford’s Old Time Music and DanceRevival" (Peter La Chapelle); “Ovoutie Slanguage is Absolutely Kosher: Yiddish in Scat-Singing, Jazz Jargon, and Black Music" (Jonathan Z. S. Pollack); "'If I Embarrass You, TellYour Friends' : Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and the Space of the Risque" (Josh Kun); "'Here’s aforeign song I learned in Utah' : The Anxiety of Jewish Influence in the Music of Bob Dylan"(David Kaufman); "Jazz Liturgy, Yiddishe Blues, Cantorial Death Metal, and Free Klez: MusicalHybridity in Radical Jewish Culture" (Jeff Janeczco). |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x,172 pages) |
| ISBN: | 161249675X 9781612496757 |