Re: Billy Joel -- Jewish Music?

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

Always the question, innit?  I've about done asking.

Owen

Eliott Kahn wrote:

> Seth:
>
> It still remains a mystery to me why people are so fixated on claiming as
> "one of ours," artists who display no Jewish musical idioms or literary
> themes in their work. There are people who actually labor in the vineyards
> of Jewish music, art, literature, theatre, and dance, so why must we name
> the ones as "Jewish" whose work and interests display none of these
> characteristics?
>

--
Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
The Wholesale Klezmer Band

The only Man who eer I knew
Who did not make me almost spew
Was Fuseli: he was both Turk and Jew
And so, good Christian friends, How d'ye do?

Wm. Blake


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