Song Is Not the Same : Jews and American Popular Music / Purdue University Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kun, Josh.

Purdue University Press, author, issuing body.

Series:

The Jewish Role in American Life: an Annual Review Series

The Jewish role in American life : an annual review, 1934-7529 ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Song Is Not the Same

Place of Publication:

Purdue University Press 2011

West lafayette : Purdue University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of the Casden Institute's The Jewish Role in American Life annual series introduces new scholarship on the long-standing relationship between Jewish-Americans and the worlds of American popular music. Edited by scholar and critic Josh Kun, the essays in the volume blend single-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 Yiddish experiments 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 Dance Revival" (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, Tell Your Friends' : Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and the Space of the Risque" (Josh Kun); "'Here’s a foreign 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: Musical Hybridity in Radical Jewish Culture" (Jeff Janeczco).

Contents:

Dreaming of Michael Jackson : notes on Jewish listening / Gayle Wald

"Cohen owes me ninety-seven dollars" : images of Jews 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 dance revival / 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, tell your friends" : the musical comedy of Bell Barth and Pearl Williams / Josh Kun

"Here's a foreign song I learned in Utah" : the anxiety of Jewish influence in the music of Bob Dylan / David Kaufman

Negotiating boundaries : musical hybridity in Tzadik's radical Jewish culture series / Jeff Janeczko.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

נושא ישן: Jewish theater - United States.

נושא ישן: Popular music - United States.

ISBN:

1-61249-675-X

OCLC:

1368036650