Re: music. the p-word and staying alive

[Fred Blumenthal <xd2fabl...>]

Ms. Goodman wants politics and music to be separate, but then illustrates
vividly and vociferously how her role as a Jewish musician can't be
separated from the anti-Semitism around her.  Should we cease singing
"Avadim Hayinu?"

Fred Blumenthal
xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com



                                                                                
                                 
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 No offense. What did you expect???? That in general,  Europeans would
generally give a ____ about Jews???This stuff really doesn't belong on this
Music List, you know. I'm sure that people will be happy to speak to you
off list about it. I'd be happy to. My email is: trudigoodman (at) 
yahoo(dot)com(dot)
And the reason that I say that has nothing to do with any lack of sympathy
for your feelings(I do have rachmones for your position), than the fact
that the subject is so volatile for so many Jews.


 Many of us, myself included are already dealing with the Anti-Semitic
fallout of 9/11 in our artistic lives already.  You wouldn't believe the
stuff that has been said to me lately as an actor and musical performer!
As for the Sephardic List you emailed. Being part Sephard, I can tell you
that there are lots of lists. Try the Cafe Ami website where people are
more tolerant.  I personally living in the Northeast have heard and seen so
much Anti-Jewish crap over the last few months that all I can tell you as a
Creative Artist, is to keep on creating and voicing your concerns via your
art and your identity.  Continue being your Courageous Jewish Womanly Self.
Unfortunately, sometimes, Es Sver Zu Zayn A Yid(It's Hard To Be A Jew).


Shalom Aveinu, Shalom Aleichem,


Trudi the G



>From: Judith R Cohen
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: music and the p-word
>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 06:27:35 -0400
>
>hi, as an example of how separating discussions of music from
>discussions of politics does/n't(?), work, I posed my message about the
>Palestinian-Jewish concert to Sephardic discussion lists. It received no
>comment whatsoever except a furious message from someone living in
>Israel who asked why I "dared" "enjoy" a concert , any concert at all,
>let alone one with "our enemies" while he and his family and other
>Israelis were suffering.
>
>Meanwhile, a different peace concert was cancelled: it was to be part of
>the events of European Day of Jewish Culture, June 16, in the same
>Spanish town about which I've written several articles describing their
>invented "Jewish" festival which includes, among many other things,
>music played by the local folk group and largely learned from my and
>Gerineldo cd's as well as Gloria Levy's. Already, when I was there
>briefly in May, the signs reading things like "Friend of Sefarad" had
>been defaced with red paint and swastikas, which Town Hall had not "got
>around" to having cleaned; now, June 16's activities were supposed to
>include a "concert for peace". A friend from the town wrote me the other
>day to tell me Town Hall cancelled this and all other activities for the
>day - "in solidarity with the Palestinian people."
>Judith
>
>

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