The heebie jeebies at CBGB's : a secret history of Jewish punk / Steven Lee Beeber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeber, Steven Lee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punk rock music--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

Punk rock music.

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

Jews.

CBGB OMFUG (Nightclub).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn this book focuses on punk's beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements, in both makeup and attitude. As it originated in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the early 1970's, punk rock was the apotheosis of a Jewish cultural tradition that found its ultimate expression in the generation born after the Holocaust. Beginning with Lenny Bruce, ?the patron saint of punk,"...

Contents:

CONTENTS; Introduction - The Punks Were Jewish?!; 1 The Protocols of the Elders of Punk - Lenny Bruce: The Patron Saint of Jewish New York; 2 The Punk Zeyde - Lou Reed: The Godfather of (Jewish) Punk; 3 A Nice Jewish Boy - Danny Fields Begets the Shaman, the Misfit, and the Punk; 4 Suicide Is Painful - Martin Rev and Alan Vega Bring the Jewish Streets Indoors; 5 I'm Straight! - Jonathan Richman: Cool Nerd; 6 The Ten Nuggets - Lenny Kaye and the Compilation of the Ten Punk Commandments; 7 The Fiddler on the Bowery - Hilly Kristal Sets Up a DIYCBGB OMFUG

8 Juidos 'n' Decaf Italians - Irony, Blasphemy, and Jewish Shtick 9 A Jewish American Band - The Hebraic Foundations of the Ramones; 10 Der Übermensch!!! - Comic Books, Golems, and Super-Jews Christen PUNK; 11 A Jewish Hell - Richard Meyers Creates a Jewish Mother's Worst Nightmare; 12 The Shiksa Goddess - Chris Stein Creates the First Punk Princess; 13 Hotsy-Totsy Nazi Shatzes - Nazi Imagery and the Final Solution to the Final Solution; 14 The New JAPS (Jewish American Punks) - Jewish American Women and the Birth of Female Punk; 15 Write Yiddish, Cast British - How England Stole Jewish Punk

16 A Post-Punk History of a Pre-Cool Jew World - How the Radical Jewish Culture Movement Took NY Punk Further Downtown Epilogue - One of Us; Afterword - Seeing God; Source Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-55652-698-9

OCLC:

191953137