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Issue 6 - Fall 2007 - The Sound Issue
Articles
FIDDLING
THE PAPA! THE PAPA! TRADITION!
Thanks to YouTube, everyone can play Tevye. Two theater critics run the rule over the hits and pans
BY MEL & TONIN
ARTS & CRAFTS
GOT MYSELF A CRYIN, TALKIN, SLEEPIN, WALKIN, LIVIN DOLL
The secret of becoming the best-selling Jewish singer of all time revealed
BY DANA FERINE
REFLECTION
BIGGER AND DEAFER
Oh, the things Davy Rothbart put his deaf mother through
BY DAVY ROTHBART
INTERLUDE
REFLECTION
ME & MC
When Hillary Frank met Paul Barman, she knew she'd found a friend for life. Then he had to go and become a Jewish rapper
BY HILLARY FRANK
INTERLUDE
RECOLLEC-TIONS
PLAYERS CLUB
Memories from the days of the mamboniks
BY MARK SCHWARTZ
Introduction by Josh Kun
INTERLUDE
ESSAY
KILLING TIN PAN ALLEY
Bob Dylan and the (Jewish) American Songbook
BY JONATHAN KARP
INTERLUDE
PROFILE
INTERLUDE
MUSICAL
INTERLUDE
ESSAY
I AM NOT HIPPY JOHNNY
How Jonathan Richman used his outsider status to revolutionize rock and roll
BY TONY MICHELS
INTERLUDE
DISCUSSION
HOW WE LISTEN
Josh Kun talks to Leon Botstein about the iPod versus the concert hall, the ear as sensory organ, The Lord of the Rings — live! — and music as Trojan horse
INTERLUDE
PROFILE
THE GIRL IN THE SILK SKULLCAP
Jean Gornish knew she was cut out to be a cantor. Jewish law kept her out of the pulpit, but that didn't stop her from singing
BY ARI Y. KELMAN
INTERLUDE
ARCHIVE
WORLD MUSIC BEFORE ITS TIME
From the Lower East Side to Mumbai, Irving Fields was beloved. A portfolio chronicles his global footprints
INTERLUDE
INTERVIEW
STOP ME IF YOU THINK YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE
Shedding the mantle of socialite DJ to become a critically successful producer, Mark Ronson is Jewtastic
BY ALAN LIGHT
INTERLUDE
PROFILE
JOHN COLTRANE OF THE MANDOLIN
The long, strange trip of Andy Statman
BY JON KALISH
INTERLUDE
PROFILE
INTERLUDE
INTERVIEW
REFLECTION
INTERLUDE
ESSAY
WHO'S YEHOODI?
Scat, Jive, and Yiddish, 1938-1953
BY JONATHAN Z.S. POLLACK
ESSAY
THE END OF WORDS
AND WHO BY FIRE, WHO BY WATER,
WHO IN THE SUNSHINE, WHO IN THE NIGHT TIME ILLUSTRATION BY PETER MITCHELL
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