Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood
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 musical examples. Drawing on a variety of historical and archival sources, as well as his own experiences as a composer of synagogue, popular, and...
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Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.
Ch. 1Slices of history12Ch. 2The lullaby of Brody : childhood experiences39Ch. 3Pathways of Americanization54Ch. 4"Writes" of passage74Ch. 5The wandering gypsy88Ch. 6"Yingish" songs101Ch. 7The mood of modes122Ch. 8Bits and pieces145Ch. 9Sons of cantors154Ch. 10Symbols of faith in the music of Leonard Bernstein178Ch. 11Porter's trunk186Ch. 12Affinities between Jewish Americans and African Americans193Ch. 13Afterword : society and musical politics224App. AComposers, authors, and performers236App. B"Yingish" song titles : a selective list246App. CMusical example titles259
