I haven't got anything intelligent to say, but I want to thank you for this. I'm fascinated by Jewish style in American popular songs of The Golden Era. I'm not sure how it is that I, Gentile by birth and with no formal musical training, recognize that sound when I hear it, but I do.
I haven't heard much of the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, but I have heard a little. I remained stunned that a Jewish man from New Orleans who had been dead for a quarter century before jazz really got to ginning could have anticipated jazz occasionally, but music doesn't lie.
Thanks, Bobby. Jews brought a lot from the Yiddish theater and really formed a lot of “American” sound in the early 20th century as part of their bid for acceptance. As for Jazz, I don’t know Gottschalk but I’m not surprised. Will check it out.
I haven't got anything intelligent to say, but I want to thank you for this. I'm fascinated by Jewish style in American popular songs of The Golden Era. I'm not sure how it is that I, Gentile by birth and with no formal musical training, recognize that sound when I hear it, but I do.
I haven't heard much of the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, but I have heard a little. I remained stunned that a Jewish man from New Orleans who had been dead for a quarter century before jazz really got to ginning could have anticipated jazz occasionally, but music doesn't lie.
Thanks, Bobby. Jews brought a lot from the Yiddish theater and really formed a lot of “American” sound in the early 20th century as part of their bid for acceptance. As for Jazz, I don’t know Gottschalk but I’m not surprised. Will check it out.
Once again, each blog post is like its own graduate seminar in Jewish music. Kol Hakavod!
Thanks!