Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 Is “White Christmas” a Piece of Jewish Music?

Chapter 2 The Musical Worlds of Jewish Buenos Aires, 1910–1940

Chapter 3 Tristes Alegrías: The Jewish Presence in Argentina’s Popular Music Arena

Chapter 4 Jacob do Bandolim: A Jewish(-)Brazilian Composer

Chapter 5 Walls of Sound: Lieber and Stoller, Phil Spector, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and the “Enlarging” of America

Chapter 6 Singing from Difference: Jewish Singers-Songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 7 ¡Toca maravilloso! Larry Harlow and the Jewish Connection to Latin Music

Chapter 8 Roberto Juan Rodriguez’ Timba Talmud: Diasporic Cuban-Jewish Musical Convergences in New York

Chapter 9 Yiddish Song in Twenty-First Century America: Paths to Creativity

Chapter 10 Fight for Your Right to Partycipate: Jewish American Rappers

Chapter 11 Gypsy, Cumbia, Cuarteto, Surf, Blah Blah Blah: Simja Dujov and Jewish Musical Eclecticism in Argentina

Chapter 12 Queer Jewish Divas: Jewishness and Queerness in the Life and Performance of Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, and Olga Guillot

Chapter 13 Third Diaspora Soundscapes: Music of the Jews of Islam in the Americas

Closing Notes: The Soundstage of Jewish Life, North and South

Index