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A right to sing the blues : African Americans, Jews, and American popular song

All too often an incident or accident thrusts Black-Jewish relations into the news. Discussion follows, but little in the way of progress or enlightenment results - and this is how things will remain until thoughts about African American-Jewish relations are revised. This is just such a revision.
eBook, English, 1999
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 277 pages)
9780674769762, 9780674040908, 0674769767, 0674040902
435671112
Introduction: The languages of Black-Jewish relations
"Yiddle on your fiddle": the culture of Black-Jewish relations
"I used to be color blind": the racialness of Jewish men
"Swanee ripples": from blackface to white Negro
"Lift ev'ry voice": African American music and the nation
"Melancholy blues": making Jews sacred in African American music
Epilogue: The lasting power of Black-Jewish relations
English