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Author Bennett, Roger, 1970-

Title And you shall know us by the trail of our vinyl : the Jewish past as told by the records we have loved and lost / Roger Bennett and Josh Kun.

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, ©2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  780.89924 B439a 2008    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description 217, [22] pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-235).
Contents Men's warehouse : the changing sartorial styles of the great cantors -- The Yiddish are coming : how vinyl kept a dying language alive -- Go down Moses : the music of Black-Jewish relations -- Who needs a synagogue when you have a record player in your living room? : the Jewish holidays as long-playing records -- Me Llamo Steinberg : the Jewish Latin craze -- laughing at 33 RPM : the vinyl world of comedy -- "Oh what a night!" : parties, weddings, love, and good old-fashioned happiness -- The sound of suffering : Holocaust, Soviet Jewry, and martyrdom on vinyl -- Haifa on hi-fi : the ever-evolving notion of Israel -- Stop singing our songs : non-Jewish masters of the Jewish melody -- The folk explosion : the last days of Jewish vinyl.
Subject Jews -- United States -- Music -- History and criticism.
Sound recordings -- Social aspects -- United States.
Jews -- Music -- Humor.
Jews -- Music. (OCoLC)fst00983314
Sound recordings -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01127060
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Music. (OCoLC)fst01423855
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
Music.
Humor.
Added Author Kun, Josh.
ISBN 9780307394675
0307394670

 
    
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