Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish : How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway , and Hollywood

Illustrations xi Foreword xiii Problems of Permissions xv Other Books xviii Orthography and Abbreviations xix Introduction 1(1) Making Lists 1(2) What's in a Name? 3(2) Yiddish into English 5(6) PART I Secular Roots 11(110) Slices of History 12(27) A Search for Definitions 12(6) Over There---The Mediterranean Basin and Western Europe 18(4) Over Here---The USA, Mostly New York City 22(17) The Lullaby of Brody---Childhood Experiences 39(15) Pathwa ys of Americanization 54(20) Adaptation---Musical Transformations 55(10) A Young Wife's Tale---``Love Me to a Yiddisha Melody'' 65(2) Adoption---Musical Quotations 67(1) Absorption---Musical Anagrams 68(6) ``Writes'' of Passage 74(14) Accent-Free Adaptations---``And the Angels Sing'' 74(4) Accent-Free Adoptions---``Nature Boy'' 78(1) Accent-Free Absorptions 79(9) The Wandering Gypsy 88(13) Acculturation---By Way of an Idiomatic Musical Formula 88(7) The Charm of the Flatted Sixth---Jewish Coloration 95(6) ``Yingish'' Songs 101(20) Novelties---Minor Verse/Major Chorus 103(4) In the Limelight---``Yiddle, On Your Fiddle, Play Some Ragtime'' 107(6) ``Moon Shine'' 113(4) Song Sheets International Proudly Presents The Story of Becky from Babylon 117(4) PART II Sacred Roots 121(143) The Mood of Modes 122(23) The Adonai malakh Mode 122(9) The Magein avot Mode 131(5) ``Hatikvah'' (The Hope) 136(2) ``Eli, Eli'' (My God, My God) 138(3) The Ahava raba Mode--The Freygish Factor 141(4) Bits and Pieces 145(9) The Impact of the Synagogue 149(5) Sons of Cantors 154(24) Kurt Weill 155(4) Jacques Offenbach 159(1) Irving Berlin 160(6) Harold Arlen 166(4) Sammy Fain 170(1) Cantors' Sons as Performers 171(7) Symbols of Faith in the Music of Leonard Bernstein 178(8) Porter's Trunk 186(7) Affinities Between Jewish Americans and African Americans 193(31) Debunking Canards 193(10) Exploitation 194(4) Blackface 198(3) Pastiche 201(2) Showbiz Religion 203(2) The Ukrainian Dorian Mode 205(8) Jungle Fever, Blues, and Jews 213(3) Davenen---Jewish Prayer Style 216(8) Afterword---Society and Musical Politics 224(40) Photo Gallery of Yiddish Songwriters and Poets 231(5) Appendixes A. Composers, Authors, and Performers 236(10) B. ``Yingish'' Song Titles---A Selective List 246(13) C. Musical Example Titles 259(5) Acknowledgments 264(3) Bibliography 267(10) Permissions 277(9) CD Tracks 286(8) Index 294