Mazal tov, amigos! : : Jews and popular music in the Americas / / edited by Amalia Ran and Moshe Morad.

• Superior document: Jewish Latin America, Volume 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Ran, Amalia,; Morad, Moshe,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Latin America (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Winner of the Jewish Music Special Interest Group Paper Prize of 2018 Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas seeks to explore the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas. It offers a wide-ranging review of new and old trends from an interdisciplinary standpoint, including history, musicology, ethnomusicology, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and even Queer studies. The contribution of Jews to the development of the music industry in the United States, Argentina, or Brazil cannot be measured on a single scale. Hence, these essays seek to explore the sphere of Jews and popular music in the Americas and their multiple significances, celebrating the contribution of Jewish musicians and Jewishness to the development of new musical genres and ideas.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Amalia Ran and Moshe Morad -- 1 Is “White Christmas” a Piece of Jewish Music? / Ellen Koskoff -- 2 The Musical Worlds of Jewish Buenos Aires, 1910–1940 / Pablo Palomino -- 3 Tristes Alegrías: The Jewish Presence in Argentina’s Popular Music Arena / Amalia Ran -- 4 Jacob do Bandolim: A Jewish(-)Brazilian Composer / Thomas George Caracas Garcia -- 5 Walls of Sound: Lieber and Stoller, Phil Spector, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and the “Enlarging” of America / Ari Katorza -- 6 Singing from Difference: Jewish Singers-Songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s / Jon Stratton -- 7 ¡Toca maravilloso! Larry Harlow and the Jewish Connection to Latin Music / Benjamin Lapidus -- 8 Roberto Juan Rodriguez’ Timba Talmud: Diasporic Cuban-Jewish Musical Convergences in New York / Nili Belkind -- 9 Yiddish Song in Twenty-First Century America: Paths to Creativity / Abigail Wood -- 10 Fight for Your Right to Partycipate: Jewish American Rappers / Uri Dorchin -- 11 Gypsy, Cumbia, Cuarteto, Surf, Blah Blah Blah: Simja Dujov and Jewish Musical Eclecticism in Argentina / Lillian M. Wohl -- 12 Queer Jewish Divas: Jewishness and Queerness in the Life and Performance of Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, and Olga Guillot / Moshe Morad -- 13 Third Diaspora Soundscapes: Music of the Jews of Islam in the Americas / Edwin Seroussi -- Closing Notes: The Soundstage of Jewish Life, North and South / Judah M. Cohen -- Index.