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The book traces Jewish immigration to the United States and the entry of Jews into the cultural industry from the late 19th century to the mid-1960s. It traces their real and imaginary relationship with the African-American minority and examines their dialogue with the charisma of black music to form Jewish-black cooperation. Ari Katorza can show how the black-Jewish alliance took part within the hegemonic conflict of American culture.

Stairway to Paradise reveals how American Jewish entrepreneurs, musicians, and performers influenced American popular music from the late nineteenth century till the mid-1960s. From blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, and Broadway musicals, ending with folk and rock 'n' roll. The book follows the writers and artists' real and imaginative relationship with African-American culture's charisma. Stairway to Paradise discusses the artistic and occasionally ideological dialogue that these artists, writers, and entrepreneurs had with African-American artists and culture. Tracing Jewish immigration to the United States and the entry of Jews into the entertainment and cultural industry, the book allocates extensive space to the charged connection between music and politics as reflected in the Jewish-Black Alliance - both in the struggle for social justice and in the music field. It reveals Jewish success in the music industry and the unique and sometimes problematic relationships that characterized this process, as their dominance in this field became a source of blame for exploiting African-American artistic and human capital. Alongside this, the book shows how black-Jewish cooperation, and its fragile alliance, played a role in the hegemonic conflicts involving American culture during the 20th century. Unintentionally, it influenced the process of decline of the influence of the WASP elite during the 1960s. Stairway to Paradise fuses American history and musicology with cultural studies theories. This inter-disciplinary approach regarding race, class, and ethnicity offers an alternative view of more traditional notions regarding understanding American music's evolution.¿

What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although some of their works were celebrated, these composers had lost their familiar cultures and were forced to navigate xenophobia as well as entirely different creative terrain. Others, far less fortunate, were in a kind of internal exile--composing under a ruthless dictatorship or in concentration camps and ghettos. Michael Haas sensitively records the experiences of this musical diaspora. Torn between cultures and traditions, these composers produced music that synthesized old and new worlds, some becoming core portions of today's repertoire, some relegated to the desk drawer. Encompassing the musicians interned as enemy aliens in the United Kingdom, the brilliant Hollywood compositions of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and the Brecht-inspired theater music of Kurt Weill, Haas shows how these musicians shaped the twentieth-century soundscape--and offers a moving record of the incalculable effects of war on culture.

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(Transcontinental Music Folios). The Jewish music of Noam Katz is passionate and heartfelt, eminently singable, and full of the love of life. Unforgettable melodies and rhythms enrichNoam's timeless songs, drawing influences from world, western, and folk music. The over 70 songs in this anthology are equally at home in worship and life cycle, schools, camps, community interfaith gatherings, and so much more. Includes every original song released on his four acclaimed albums, as well as several previously-unpublished songs. It also includes several special introductory pieces, a worship and educational index for suggestions on how to integrate Noam's music, song annotations (insightful paragraphs on each song), and an album index.

(Transcontinental Music Folios). Here's a treasury of 25 of the world's most moving and powerful social action anthems. The collection includes well-known favorites, as well as new pieces from Jewish and secular artists alike. Features the music of: Doug Cotler, Sally Fingerett, Linda Hirschhorn, Noam Katz, Jeff Klepper, Safam, Sheva and many more. Includes a two-CD set with 25 songs!