Re: musical propaganda

[Gwynne Sigel <gittele...>]

Avi,

What is the name of the film?

Thanks,

Gwwynne

At 10:07 AM 2/27/03 -0800, avi finegold wrote:
>i was just going to post something in this vein.
>
>if anyone has seent he eptein brothers documentary
>theyll know what im about to talk about. theres a
>scene where the three brothers are in the studio and
>one of them says that always played this tune from f#
>to g, to which the elder brother retorts. "i dont play
>those goyishe notes". it was, to me one of the
>funniest things ever on film. now of course it was
>said somewhat tongue in cheek, but it does bring to
>mind the fact that we do see some keys and modes as
>being distinctly jewish. why is that? are there keys
>that are distinctly antisemitic??
>was wagner the antisemitic modal king of his time??
>
>avi
>
>
>--- Sam Weiss <SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net> wrote:
> > At 11:46 AM 2/27/03, Kfarcenter (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
> > >It'd nice to get back to Jewish music.
> >
> > I'll do my part to nudge it back.  This is obliquely
> > related to the topic
> > of subtle ideas contained in music, from the other
> > ("pro-Jewish") side of
> > the coin, as well as to the discussion of Szól A
> > Kakas Már.
> >
> > "Cucumber" is a Long-Distance phone service provider
> > run by a Jewish
> > charitable organization in Lakewood, NJ that had
> > been advertising heavily
> > in Jewish venues and recently started to expand its
> > advertising into
> > broader markets. Yesterday I heard a radio spot for
> > the company on WCBS
> > (the NY area station of CBS News) that didn't
> > mention anything at all about
> > their Jewish affiliation, at least not overtly.  But
> > their inane jingle
> > (that goes well with the inane brand name) uses the
> > melody of a short
> > Lubavitcher Kosachok-type dance tune (the exact
> > title escapes me) to
> > deliver the subliminal "Jewish" message. It's a very
> > clever choice, since
> > to the uninitiated general public the simple tune in
> > major has no Jewish
> > overtones at all, being one of the many Ukranian
> > tunes that the
> > Lubavitchers adopted whole.  It actually took me a
> > couple of hours to make
> > the connection myself.
> >
> >
> >
>_____________________________________________________________
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> > Paramus, NJ
> >
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> >