And we're all brothers : singing in Yiddish in contemporary North America
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, presenting New York at the dawn of the twenty-first century as an episode in the flowing timeline of a musical repertory, and outlining some of the trajectories that Yiddish song and its singers have taken to, and beyond, this point
Print Book, English, ©2013
Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, ©2013