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And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

Hardcover

Series: Soas Studies in Music

World Music

ISBN10: 140944533X
ISBN13: 9781409445333
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 12 2013
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The last quarter of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first saw a steady stream of new songbook publications and recordings in Yiddish - newly composed songs, well-known singers performing nostalgic favourites, American popular songs translated into Yiddish, theatre songs, and even a couple of forays into Yiddish hip hop; musicians meanwhile engaged with discourses of musical revival, post-Holocaust cultural politics, the transformation of language use, radical alterity and a new generation of American Jewish identities. This book explores how Yiddish song became such a potent medium for musical and ideological creativity at the twilight of the twentieth century.

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