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There has been a long-standing relationship between Jewish Americans and the world of American popular music. The essays in this volume blend surveys of music making as a whole with profiles of single artists. This is volume 8 of the annual publication, The Jewish Role in American Life (ISSN 1934-7529), produced by the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life at the University of Southern California.
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Jewish HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- The Song is Not the Same: Jews and American Popular Music The Jewish Role in American Life An Annual Review
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- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD
- Dreaming of Michael Jackson: Notes on Jewish Listening
- “Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars”: Images of Jews from the Jewish Sheet-Music Trade
- “Dances Partake of the Racial Characteristics of the People Who Dance Them”: Nordicism, Antisemitism, and Henry
- “Ovoutie Slanguage is Absolutely Kosher”: Yiddish in Scat-Singing, Jazz Jargon, and Black Music
- “If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends”: The Musical Comedy of Bell Barth and Pearl Williams
- “Here’s a Foreign Song I Learned in Utah”: The Anxiety of Jewish Influence in the Music of Bob Dylan
- Negotiating Boundaries: Musical Hybridity in Tzadik’s Radical Jewish Culture Series
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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