New York Noise : Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene.

Cover -- Contents -- Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Radical Jewish Music in Manhattan -- 1 Jewish Music: The Art of Getting It Wrong -- 2 Breaking a Thick Silence: A Community Emerges -- 3 From the Inexorable to the Ineffable: John Zorn's Kristallnacht and the Masada Project -- 4 Rethinking Identity: G-d Is My Co-Pilot's Queer Dada Judaism -- 5 Shelley Hirsch and Anthony Coleman: Music and Memory from the "Nowhere Place" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Her book describes the way RJC forged a new vision of Jewish identity in the contemporary world, one that sought to restore the bond between past and present, to interrogate the limits of racial and gender categories, and to display the tensions between secularism and observance, traditional values and contemporary concerns.

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