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Stairway to Paradise

Jews, Blacks, and the American Music Revolution

By: Ari Katorza

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Stairway to Paradise

Jews, Blacks, and the American Music Revolution

By: Ari Katorza

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.

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3110723166

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9783110723168

Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

1950s–1980s

By: Oded Heilbronner,Ari Katorza

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Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

1950s–1980s

By: Oded Heilbronner,Ari Katorza

The book Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel. 1950s–1980s aims to refresh the understanding of the relationship between social power relations, youth culture, and popular music in Israel. The authors discuss various perspectives regarding the axis of youth, popular culture, and music and present additional options for the discourse on these topics in Israel. Among its many new findings, the study discusses new insights relating to the increasing openness of Israeli culture to globalization, the decline of the collective culture of the Sabra, the rise of individual culture, liberalism and neoliberalism, the decay of Israeli consensus, and the melting pot idea and practices. In addition, the authors examine various perspectives on how Israeli culture and music have changed over the years and reacted to historical alterations. It reviews the tensions between modernism and postmodernism, localism and globalism, teenagers and their parents’ culture, ethnicity and class, hegemonic negotiations, and marginal subcultures. This book uses historical methodology combined with the assistance of cultural theories, historical surveys, and first-hand documents.

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3111235432

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9783111235431

Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

1950s–1980s

By: Oded Heilbronner,Ari Katorza

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Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

1950s–1980s

By: Oded Heilbronner,Ari Katorza

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3111235599

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9783111235592

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Stairway to Paradise

Stairway to Paradise

Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel

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