RE: Julio Inglesias Jewish?

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

And he didn't like singing Dayyenu?  I thought everyone likes Dayyenu at a 
seyder.  Maybe he didn't like the rest of the seyder/camp experience, but 
all he can remember is the unforgettable, stick-to-your ribs Dayenu song.

Wish I knew what Peurto Rican cuatro music is.


Reyzl



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From:  Owen Davidson[SMTP:owend (at) tp(dot)net]
Sent:  Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:48 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: Julio Inglesias Jewish?

Interesting, the lengths to which we will stretch our aesthetic values for 
the
sake of cultural identity.  A friend of mine (and fellow 
instrument-builder) who
is both Jewish and Puerto Rican lamented that Jewish music was so-o-o 
hopelessly
square, and cited as his reference singing Dayyenu at sleep-away camp.  He 
also
snorted at my collection of balalaika/bouzouki/tamburitza music:  "You 
really
like those mindless plinky-plink melodies, don't you."  Now, every time I 
visit
his shop, he has some AMAZING new cuatro virtuoso to tout (he's writing a
history of the Puerto-Rican cuatro), and I am hard put not to fire his own
"mindless plinky-plink" remark back to him.  Nu?


Owen

Eliezer Kaplan wrote:

> Reyzl said:
>
> >   I am annoyed at the fact that
> >most Jews have lost connection to their own music, except for things 
like
> >Fiddler on the Roof, and what they choose to sing when they want to sing 
is
> >Black music.   I think they make these choices because that is what is
> >considered the "cool"est and that's what's on the radio.    This is also
> >what Jews from Reform to Conservative to modern Orthodox choose to play 
at
> >their rites of passage celebration.   I find all this a cultural Jewish
> >poverty, but I am sorry that I don't have time to write this idea up now 
on
> >the list.  It will have to wait for another time.
> >
>
> A lot is simple lack of education, and asking one's self 'how could 
Jewish
> music ever be cool'? Before I got into it, I used to think of Jewish 
music
> as being Hava Nagilah, Maoz Tzur, and Hatikvah. Without some personal
> research, I never would have heard of Naftule Brandwein or Salim Halali
> (orginally, not an explicitly Jewish artist, though as of now I don't 
think
> he can not be seen as one)- proof that Jewish music is actually extremely
> cool. Of course, the education thing is true for most streams of music 
that
> are not the mainstream. Usually it doesn't come over and hit you on the
> head- you have to find it first.
>                 EK
>

--
Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
The Wholesale Klezmer Band

How red the sons & daughters of Luvah  how they tread the Grapes
Laughing & shouting drunk with odors many fall oerwearied
Drowned in the wine is many a youth and maiden those around
Lay them on skins of tygers or the spotted Leopard or wild Ass
Till they revive or bury them in cool Grots making lamentation

Wm. Blake




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