217, [22] pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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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.