Re: Jewish songwriters

[BlackMonk <BlackMonk...>]

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From: "Marvin" <physchem (at) telocity(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:54 PM
Subject: Jewish songwriters


> The current issue of Reform Judaism has an article on songwriters who were
> Jewish, and wrote popular American music: Irving Berlin, George Gershwin,
> Harold Arlen.  If you don't get this magazine, you can read the article at
> http://uahc.org/rjmag/02winter/sultans.shtml.
>
> The article will continue in the next issue, covering Richard Rogers,
Lorenz
> Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sammy Cahn, and Jerome Kern.
>

If you ever see Paul Zollo's (the author of the article) book, pick it up.
It has interviews with a number of Jewish songwriters outside the scope of
the article-Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, P.F. Sloan, Paul Simon, and a couple
others.

That's not to slight the interviews with non-Jewish songwriters like Pete
Seeger, Willie Dixon, Goffin and King, Harry Nilsson, Yoko Ono, Brian
Wilson, etc.



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