A Right to Sing the Blues : : African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song / / Jeffrey Melnick.
All too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in Crown Heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts Black-Jewish relations into the news. A volley of discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results--and this is how things will remain u...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Languages of Black-Jewish Relations
- 1 “Yiddle on Your Fiddle”: The Culture of Black-Jewish Relations
- 2 “I Used to Be Color Blind”: The Racialness of Jewish Men
- 13 “Swanee Ripples”: From Blackface to White Negro
- 4 “Lift Ev’ry Voice”: African American Music and the Nation
- 5 “Melancholy Blues”: Making Jews Sacred in African American Music
- Epilogue: The Lasting Power of Black-Jewish Relations
- Notes
- Index