A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular SongHarvard University Press, 16/03/2001 - 288 páginas All too often an incident or accident, such as the eruption in Crown Heights with its legacy of bitterness and recrimination, thrusts Black-Jewish relations into the news. A volley of discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results--and this is how things will remain until we radically revise the way we think about the complex interactions between African Americans and Jews. A Right to Sing the Blues offers just such a revision. Black-Jewish relations, Jeffrey Melnick argues, has mostly been a way for American Jews to talk about their ambivalent racial status, a narrative collectively constructed at critical moments, when particular conflicts demand an explanation. Remarkably flexible, this narrative can organize diffuse materials into a coherent story that has a powerful hold on our imagination. Melnick elaborates this idea through an in-depth look at Jewish songwriters, composers, and perfomers who made Black music in the first few decades of this century. He shows how Jews such as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, and others were able to portray their natural affinity for producing Black music as a product of their Jewishness while simultaneously depicting Jewishness as a stable white identity. Melnick also contends that this cultural activity competed directly with Harlem Renaissance attempts to define Blackness. Moving beyond the narrow focus of advocacy group politics, this book complicates and enriches our understanding of the cultural terrain shared by African Americans and Jews. |
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... America Second printing, 2001 First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Melnick, Jeffrey Paul. Aright to sing the blues : African Americans, Jews, and American popular song ...
... America Second printing, 2001 First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Melnick, Jeffrey Paul. Aright to sing the blues : African Americans, Jews, and American popular song ...
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African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. commodity?33 My central contention is that Jews in the music business used their privileged positions to make a number of clear arguments about ...
African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. commodity?33 My central contention is that Jews in the music business used their privileged positions to make a number of clear arguments about ...
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African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. 1. “Yiddle on Your Fiddle”: The Culture of Black-Jewish Relations During the World War I era many American Jews decided that they were in a special ...
African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. 1. “Yiddle on Your Fiddle”: The Culture of Black-Jewish Relations During the World War I era many American Jews decided that they were in a special ...
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African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. lel histories of suffering, it was natural that their music should demonstrate a marked similarity. The ~eld of popular music accommodated appeals ...
African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. lel histories of suffering, it was natural that their music should demonstrate a marked similarity. The ~eld of popular music accommodated appeals ...
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African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. together. The best place to view the workings of the engine of analogy is in the popular music business of the ~rst three decades of the twentieth ...
African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick. E. x. a. m. C. o. p. y. together. The best place to view the workings of the engine of analogy is in the popular music business of the ~rst three decades of the twentieth ...
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The Racialness of Jewish Men | |
From Blackface to White Negro | |
African American Music and the Nation | |
Making Jews Sacred in African American Music | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick Pré-visualização indisponível - 2001 |
A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song Jeffrey Melnick Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |
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