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-artis...

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.