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Re: Jewish cowboy music
- From: Julian Siegel <jsiegel...>
- Subject: Re: Jewish cowboy music
- Date: Thu 28 Jan 1999 17.23 (GMT)
1. The Tzimmes first album "Sweet and Hot" features the song "Gib Mir A Heym", a Yiddish translation of Home On the Range (liner notes give credit to source).
2. Kinky Friedman (of mystery novel fame) has several recordings with, shall we say, a "Judeo-Texan" style.
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>From: Aviva Ben-Ur <aben-ur (at) oise(dot)utoronto(dot)ca>
>Subject: Query: Yiddish Cowboy Songs (Harrowitz)
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>From: Nancy Harrowitz <nharrow (at) bu(dot)edu>
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> Has anyone ever heard of western United States cowboy songs being
>translated into Yiddish and thus existing as some sort of genre in itself
>(ie Yiddish cowboy songs)? Is there any scholarship on this and where
>could I find more information?
>
>Thanks very much,
>Prof. Nancy Harrowitz
>Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
>Boston University
>718 Commonwealth Avenue
>Boston, Ma 02215
>tel. (617) 353-6207
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