Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Is "White Christmas" a Piece of Jewish Music? -- Chapter 2 The Musical Worlds of Jewish Buenos Aires, 1910-1940 -- Chapter 3 Tristes Alegrías: The Jewish Presence in Argentina's Popular Music Arena -- Chapter 4 Jacob do Bandolim: A Jewish(-)Brazilian Composer -- Chapter 5 Walls of Sound: Lieber and Stoller, Phil Spector, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and the "Enlarging" of America -- Chapter 6 Singing from Difference: Jewish Singers-Songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s -- Chapter 7 ¡Toca maravilloso! Larry Harlow and the Jewish Connection to Latin Music -- Chapter 8 Roberto Juan Rodriguez' Timba Talmud: Diasporic Cuban-Jewish Musical Convergences in New York -- Chapter 9 Yiddish Song in Twenty-First Century America: Paths to Creativity -- Chapter 10 Fight for Your Right to Partycipate: Jewish American Rappers -- Chapter 11 Gypsy, Cumbia, Cuarteto, Surf, Blah Blah Blah: Simja Dujov and Jewish Musical Eclecticism in Argentina -- Chapter 12 Queer Jewish Divas: Jewishness and Queerness in the Life and Performance of Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, and Olga Guillot -- Chapter 13 Third Diaspora Soundscapes: Music of the Jews of Islam in the Americas -- Closing Notes: The Soundstage of Jewish Life, North and South -- Index.

Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas explores the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas, by creating a framework for the discussion of new and old trends from an interdisciplinary standpoint.

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