New York Noise

Tamar Barzel

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Coined in 1992 by composer/saxophonist John Zorn, "Radical Jewish Culture," or RJC, became the banner under which many artists in Zorn's circle performed, produced, and circulated their music. New York's downtown music scene, part of the once-grungy Lower East Side, has long been the site of cultural innovation. It is within this environment that Zorn and his circle sought to combine, as a form of social and cultural critique, the unconventional, uncategorizable nature of downtown music with sounds that were recognizably Jewish. Out of this movement arose bands, like Hasidic New Wave and Hanukkah Bush, whose eclectic styles encompassed neo-klezmer, hardcore and acid rock, neo-Yiddish cabaret, free verse, free jazz, and electronica. Though relatively fleeting in rock history, the "RJC moment" produced a six-year burst of conversations, writing, and music—including festivals, international concerts, and nearly two hundred new recordings. During a decade of research, Tamar Barzel became a frequent visitor at clubs, post-club hangouts, musicians' dining rooms, coffee shops, and archives. 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.

Ethnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Downtown Scene
1. Jewish Music: The Art of Getting it Wrong
2. "Radical Jewish Culture": A Community Emerges
3. From the Inexorable to the Ineffable: John Zorn's Kristallnacht and the Masada Project
4. Queer Dada Judaism: G-d Is My Co-Pilot and the "Inbetween Space"
5. Shelley Hirsch and Anthony Coleman: Music and Memory from the "Nowhere Place"
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Musique
• Histoire de la musique
• Jewish Studies
• Jewish
• HISTORY
• Histoire
• MUSIC
• Jews
• Multiple signal classification
• History of classical music traditions
• Ethnomusicology
• Jazz

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 30 janvier 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780253015648
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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NEW YORK NOISE
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NEW YORK NOISE
RADICAL JEWISH MUSIC AND THE DOWNTOWN SCENE
TAMAR BARZEL
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Barzel, Tamar, author.
New York noise : radical Jewish music and the downtown scene / Tamar Barzel.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-01550-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-253-01557-0 (paperback : alk. paper)
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1. Avant-garde (Music)-New York (State)-New York. 2. Jews-New York (State)-New York-Music-History and criticism. 3. Popular music-New York (State)-New York-1991-2000. I. Title. II. Series: Ethnomusicology multimedia. III. Series: Profiles in popular music.
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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
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LIST OF PURLS
CHAPTER 1
PURL 1.1 . Verkl rte Kristallnacht. Gary Lucas, guitar. Berlin Jazz Festival, November 1988. Audio.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910284
PURL 1.2 . The Golem (1920, dir. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese), with original solo guitar soundtrack; music by Gary Lucas and Walter Horn (10 min. excerpt). Video.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910279
PURL 1.3 . Shelley Hirsch, I Am a Jew (1980). Shelley Hirsch, solo vocal and taped overdubs. On States (Tellus, 1997). Audio.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910285
CHAPTER 2
PURL 2.1 . Shrek, Yo! I Killed Your God, early 1990s performance at the Knitting Factory. Marc Ribot (guitar and vocals), with Christine Bard (drums), Jim Pugliese (drums), Sebastian Steinberg (bass), and Chris Wood (guitar). On Marc Ribot: Descent into Baldness , directed and produced by Cassis Birgit Staudt and Joerg Soechting. Cassis Birgit Staudt and Joerg Soechting. http://www-marcribot-descentintobaldness.com . Video.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910280
CHAPTER 3
PURL 3.1 . Alvin Curran, Crystal Psalms (New Albion Records, 1994). Excerpt. Audio.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910286
CHAPTER 4
PURL 4.1 . G - d Is My Co-Pilot, Mi Yimalel on Mir Shlufn Nisht (1994). Sharon Topper, vocals; Craig Flanagin, guitar; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello; Alex Klein, bass; Michael Evans, drums; Siobhan Duffy, drums. Arranged and produced by Craig Flanagin. Audio.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910287
PURL 4.2 . G - d Is My Co-Pilot, Ha-Tikvah, on Mir Shlufn Nisht (Disk Union, 1994). Audio.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910288
PURL 4.3 . Zadikov Workers Choir, Hay Naalayim (Joel Engel and Avigdor Hameiri), on Hayo Hayu Zmanim: Israeli Tunes of Yesteryear 1 (Hed-Artzi, 1960). Collection of the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive . Audio.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910289
PURL 4.4 . G - d Is My Co-Pilot, B Nai! on Mir Shlufn Nisht (1994).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910290
CHAPTER 5
PURL 5.1 . Shelley Hirsch, States , on Roulette TV (2001). Shelley Hirsch, solo vocal, with taped overdubs. Excerpt. Produced and directed by Jim Staley. Video.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910281
PURL 5.2 . Hymie and Harry (0 00 to 0 36 ). Radio version of O Little Town of East New York (1992), commissioned by New American Radio. Text by Shelley Hirsch; music by Shelley Hirsch and David Weinstein. Shelley Hirsch. New American Radio and Performing Arts online archive . Audio.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910291
PURL 5.3 . Confession Booth (6 39 to 7 28 ). Radio version of O Little Town of East New York (1992).
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910292
PURL 5.4 . 544 Hemlock Street (2 14 to 4 33 ). On O Little Town of East New York (1991), filmed on location at the Dance Theater Workshop. Text by Shelley Hirsch; music by Shelley Hirsch and David Weinstein; film and slides, Shelley Hirsch and Eric Muzzy; camera, Eric Muzzy; decor, Shelley Hirsch, Gail O Keefe, Liz Prince; costumes, Liz Prince; lighting, Lori Dawson; audio, Brooks Williams and David Weinstein. Video.
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/em/Barzel/910282
PURL 5.5 . Maria s House/The Troika (4 47 to 6 35 ). Radio version of O Little Town of East New York (1992). Audio.
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