Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway , and Hollywood (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
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Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway , and Hollywood (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Excellent reference - and fun!:
A superb book - lots of fun - but digestible only in little bites. There is a lot of information in here!
SO FUNNY :-):
This book is a must read - it was so entertaining and funny, I had pop comming out of my nose laughing! And my friends and I had a great time sitting around the piano playing and singing the composed musice enclosed! We even added a few lyrics of our own to the already hilarious lyrics ;-)
Have Fun!
Learning, laughing and loving Gottlieb's book:
If you share my growing concern at the musical cross-over tendencies in synagogue songs and how "un-Jewish" much of today's Jewish music sounds, you'll find a charming antidote in Dr. Jack Gottlieb's new and original coffee table book: Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish. Gottlieb's earnest musical detective comparisons and analyses invite us into joyfully playing the "sounds like" game. After we chuckle in consternation, at the Yiddish or liturgical roots of a pop song's pedigree, we marvel at the truism that... more info
You Don't Have to be Jewish ...:
Over 30 years ago there was a famous ad campaign for a brand of "Jewish rye bread," showing an American Indian eating a deli sandwich, and the caption read, "You Don't have to be Jewish to Like Levy's Rye Bread." With regard to this book, this was never so true. Anyone who love the "Great American Song Book" spanning the first half of the last century cannot afford to miss this book. Especially remarkable is that it IS a scholarly book, complete with footnotes and bibliography, but the tone is... more info
