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

• VerfasserIn: Purdue University Press,
• Place / Publishing House: West lafayette : : Purdue University Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The Jewish role in American life : an annual review, v. 8
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (182 p.)

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).

Table of 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.