Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley,...
Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley,...
Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood / Jack Gottlieb.
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Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York in association with the Library of Congress c2004.
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NQ781.64089/3 DISC
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English
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xxi, 306 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Contents
Ch. 1. Slices of history -- Ch. 2. The lullaby of Brody : childhood experiences -- Ch. 3. Pathways of Americanization -- Ch. 4. "Writes" of passage -- Ch. 5. The wandering gypsy -- Ch. 6. "Yingish" songs -- Ch. 7. The mood of modes -- Ch. 8. Bits and pieces -- Ch. 9. Sons of cantors -- Ch. 10. Symbo...
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Publisher
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York in association with the Library of Congress c2004.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2004.
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"In Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish, Jack Gottlieb chronicles how Jewish songwriters and composers transformed the popular music of mid-twentieth-century America. 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 mu...
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Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish : how Yiddish songs and synagogue melodies influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood / Jack Gottlieb.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-276) and index.
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c2004.
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NQ781.64089/3 DISC
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74VKpm7argzX
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0844411302
9780844411309
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781.64089924073
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991019225129702626
