New York noise : radical Jewish music and the downtown scene / Tamar Barzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barzel, Tamar, author.

Series:

Ethnomusicology multimedia

Profiles in popular music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avant-garde (Music)--New York (State)--New York.

Avant-garde (Music).

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Music--History and criticism.

Jews.

Popular music--New York (State)--New York--1991-2000.

Popular music.

Jews--Music.

Music.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xviii, 302 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Goined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, "Radical Jewish Culture," or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn's circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York's downtown music scene, part of the once-grungy Lower East Side, has long been the site of cultural innovation. It is within this environment that Zorn and his circle sought to combine, as a form of social and cultural critique, the unconventional, uncategorizable nature of downtown music with sounds that were recognizably Jewish. Out of this movement arose bands-like Hasidic New Wave and Hanukkah Bush-whose eclectic styles encompassed neo-klezmer, hardcore and acid rock, neo-Yiddish cabaret, free verse, free jazz, and electronica. Though relatively fleeting in rock history, the "RJC moment" produced a six-year burst of conversations, writing, and music-including festivals, international concerts, and nearly two hundred new recordings. A frequent visitor at clubs, post-club hangouts, musicians' dining rooms, coffee shops, and archives, Barzel describes the way RJC forged a new vision of Jewish identity in the contemporary world, one that sought to restore the bond between past and present, to interrogate the limits of racial and gender categories, and to display the tensions between secularism and observance, traditional values and contemporary concerns. Book jacket.

Contents:

Jewish music : the art of getting it wrong

Breaking a thick silence : a community emerges

From the inexorable to the ineffable : John Zorn's Kristallnacht and the Masada project

Rethinking identity : G[H]d is my co-pilot's queer Dada Judaism

Shelley Hirsch and Anthony Coleman : music and memory from the "nowhere place".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253015501

0253015502

9780253015570

025301557X

OCLC:

883748945