Klezmer America : Jewishness, ethnicity, modernity /

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Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go int...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Freedman, Jonathan, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Jews > United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Jews > United States > Identity.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Juifs > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Juifs > États-Unis > Identité.
Juifs > Acculturation > États-Unis.
RELIGION > Judaism > History.
Intellectual life
Jews > Cultural assimilation
Jews > Identity
Jews > Intellectual life
Popular culture
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Angels, Monsters and Jews
  • 2. Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, and the Making of Ethnic Masculinity
  • 3. Antisemitism Without Jews
  • 4. The Human Stain of Race
  • 5. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto- Latino
  • 6. Transgressions of a Model Minority
  • 7. Asians and Jews in Theory and Practice
  • Conclusion: The Klezmering of America
  • NOTES
  • INDEX.

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