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Jews and jazz : improvising ethnicity / Charles Hersch.
Author
Hersch, Charles, 1956-
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
©2017
Description
xiii, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML3776 .H45 2017
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Jewish jazz musicians
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United States
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Jazz musicians
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United States
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Jews
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United States
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Identity
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Jazz
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History and criticism
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Series
Transnational studies in jazz
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Summary note
Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish involvement in the world of American jazz. It focuses on the ways prominent jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, and Red Rodney have engaged with jazz in order to explore and construct ethnic identities. The author looks at Jewish identity through jazz in the context of the surrounding American culture, believing that American Jews have used jazz to construct three kinds of identities: to become more American, to emphasize their minority outsider status, and to become more Jewish. From the beginning, Jewish musicians have used jazz for all three of these purposes, but the emphasis has shifted over time. In the 1920s and 1930s, when Jews were seen as foreign, Jews used jazz to make a more inclusive America, for themselves and for blacks, establishing their American identity. Beginning in the 1940s, as Jews became more accepted into the mainstream, they used jazz to "re-minoritize" and avoid over-assimilation through identification with African Americans. Finally, starting in the 1960s as ethnic assertion became more predominant in America, Jews have used jazz to explore and advance their identities as Jews in a multicultural society [Publisher description].
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186) and index.
Contents
Part 1 : Becoming American
Jewish Tin Pan Alley composers and musical pluralism
Black-Jewish integration in the jazz world from the swing era to the 1950s
"Listening for the black sound" : Jews in the jazz music business
Part 2 : Becoming black
"Every time I try to play black, it comes out sounding Jewish" : Jewish jazz musicians cross the color line
"Matzo balls-ereenie" : African American jazz versions of Jewish songs
Part 3 : Becoming Jewish
Swinging Hava nagila : "Jewish jazz" and Jewish identity.
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ISBN
9781138195783 ((hardcover))
1138195782
9781138195790 ((paperback))
1138195790
LCCN
2016013551
OCLC
947794788
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