Re: Gone but not forgotten

[Sylvie Braitman <curlySylvie...>]

"Great Jews in Music" is indeed old! It lists Ravel as Jewish, that's not
accurate. It also has this tone "How great our people is..." that gets on my
nerve. Not that I do not think my people is great...It's just outdated, and,
unnecessary to practice self congratulation in this manner.
The Jewish Encyclopedia, will tell more, and better...

Sylvie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex J. Lubet" <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: Gone but not forgotten


> First of all, I recommend that you get the book Jews Who Rock and also
Great
> Jews in Music, although the latter is older, more general, and, IMHO, a
bit
> biased against rock.  Second, keep watching the Web for 100 Plausible
Jewish
> Rock Stars, and Internet game devised by myself and my brother Steven.
It's a
> list of 100 names of rock stars, some Jewish, some not, from whom the
reader is
> to guess who's who.  We're in the planning stages for future games in this
> series for sports stars, Nobel Prize winners, barbecue chefs (just
kidding!),
> etc.
>
> I am very interested in the subject.  I've written a lengthy article about
Wolf
> Krakowsky and teach the first semester of the year-long history of rock
> sequence in which I'm well aware of the Jewish contribution.  I also wrote
a
> performance piece about 10 years ago entitled Between a Rock of Ages and
Hard
> Rock Cafe, about the Jewish guitar hero Jimi Shmendrix.  Despite the
obvious
> mass appeal of the subject matter, only fragments have ever been performed
and
> never with high production values.  Go figure!
>
>
>
> Steven Beeber wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm afraid I have to sign off of the list for a while. Very hectic
schedule
> > ahead.
> >
> > I hope to be back on soon. In the meantime, if anyone has any
> > thoughts/updates/info. on Jewish rock stars (particularly of the late
70s
> > punk period) I am still interested. Even if I already have the info., it
> > would still be nice to hear from others who are interested in this
topic.
> >
> > Thanks again. Look forward to signing on again soon.
> >
> > Steven Beeber
> >
>
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> Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
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