- Title : Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood (SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
- Author : Jack Gottlieb
- Rating : 4.88 (289 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-8-19
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 306 Pages
- Asin : 0844411302
- Language : English
In Funny, It Doesn t Sound Jewish, Jack Gottlieb chronicles how Jewish songwriters and composers transformed the popular music of mid-twentieth-century America. Drawing on a variety of historical and archival sources, as well as his own experiences as a composer of synagogue,
In Funny, It Doesn t Sound Jewish, Jack Gottlieb chronicles how Jewish songwriters and composers transformed the popular music of mid-twentieth-century America. Drawing on a variety of historical and archival sources, as well as his own experiences as a composer of synagogue, popular, and concert music, Gottlieb carefully and compellingly documents how a minority culture infused a majority culture, enriched it, and still retained its own identity. Although many critics, historians, and musicians have alluded to the Jewish influence on American popular song, this is the first book ever to support such assertions with comprehensive musical examples. He does this with the support of a companion CD that includes previously unrecorded songs as well as some surprising rarities performed by the likes of Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, and Leonard Bernstein."It's a good thing she doesn't require a lot of sleep.When a client hires them to renovate a condo in Las Vegas, because of Natalie's personality, impressive computer skills with schematics and design, she is invited along. Fortunately, I'm both.This was my first foray into the Pathfinder Chronicles series, which features reasonably priced soft-cover gaming supplements. That way, I can play them through my PA and jam along at full strength.The tracks are of good quality. Paleo as very informative. The back of the book contains additional information about the various topics touched on, giving more details on the various types of electricity available to us. Miralee Ferrell has a special way of weaving the story and the characters together in a wonderful way. Lack of trust in self/others14. Whether she's showing the intricate details in the cell structure of a plant leaf or displaying the methods by which coal-fired electricity "flows in copper wires", the book is immensely interesting.Some of Bang's books in the past, while good, have a messy edge to them. Bureaucracy remains a calamity in Brazil and Latin America. This is definitely for the Dylan hard-core, but does provide a level of insider-view that few others do and at a very high quaThis is a loving, comprehensive and fascinating book.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. . On the other hand, everyone will be able to appreciate the accompanying 70-minute CD, which includes a marvelous, very Yiddish recording by Judy Garland of Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, as well as Leonard Bernstein at his piano singing Marc Blitzstein's poignant A Zipper-fly. One chapter is devoted to Cole Porter, "who wrote a little-known ballad, 'Hot-House Rose' (1926), which tells the bitter tale of a Jewish sweatshop (or hothouse) girl." The melodic passages cited on almost every page will be of most value to the musically sophisticated. From Publishers Weekly In his introduction to this meticulously researched study of Jewish-influenced theatrical and popular music from 1914 to 1964, scholar and composer Gottlieb observes, "For the first time since ancient history, when synagogue cantillation influenced church plain chant, Jews contributed significantly to the music of the ma
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