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Stars of David : rock'n'roll's Jewish stories

"Inspired by a backstage conversation with David Lee Roth in which the rock star revealed that he first learned to sing preparing for his bar mitzvah, Scott R. Benarde spent five years investigating the Jewish contribution to rock music from 1953 to the present, combining his own love of Judiasm, journalism, and rock 'n' roll. Noting that outside of the Christian rock genre the media had rarely dealt with a rock star's religion or spirituality (with the exception of Bob Dylan), Benarde was determined to find out how Judaism influenced rock music and the people who created it."

Print Book, English, ©2003
Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, ©2003