| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
217, 22 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [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.
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Sound recordings -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Jews -- Music -- Humor.
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| Added Author |
Kun, Josh.
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| ISBN |
9780307394675 |
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0307394670 |
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