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.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coined 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 Han

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015648

0253015642

OCLC:

918145310