ONE PEOPLE, MANY VOICES: JEWISH MUSIC IN AMERICA:
PART THREE: AMERICAN-JEWISH MUSIC COMES OF AGE,
PT. 1 (RADIO)
Summary
One in this series of radio broadcasts from National Public Radio, hosted by Theodore Bikel, which trace the history and the heritage of the American Jewish people and their music. "American-Jewish Music Comes of Age" explores the renaissance and evolution of Jewish music in America from the 1960s through the 1980s. Highlights include the following: Bikel explains the characteristic Jewish style of absorbing the music of the surrounding culture and transforming it; a review of Jewish music during the last quarter century; a recording by Dave Tarris and his Trio; characteristics of the music of the Sephardim; examples of the Ladino tradition; a recording by Laura Pomerantz; a recording by Voice of the Turtle; musician Henry Sepoznik explains how klezma music has been transformed in the last several decades to include a vocal repertoire; a recording by the Seattle klezma combo, the Mazel-Tones; an example of the "pizmon," a song with Hebrew words skillfully set to a borrowed, usually Arabic, melody; musician and researcher Velvel Pasternak's observations about the emergence of Hasidic music into the mainstream of Jewish life; a recording by Hasidic singer and composer Benzion Shenker; and a recording by midwestern Jewish folk music group Electricity.
Details
- NETWORK: NPR National Public Radio
- DATE: 1986
- RUNNING TIME: 0:29:58
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R89:0138
- GENRE: Radio - Music; Radio - Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Music, Jewish
- SERIES RUN: NPR National Public Radio - Radio series, 1985-1986
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Richard Siegel … Executive Producer
- Steve Rathe … Senior Producer, Murray Street Enterprise
- Perez Luna, Elisabeth … Producer
- Robert Cohen … Associate Producer, Writer
- Diane Dorf … Associate Producer
- Henry Sepoznik … Production (Misc.), Program concept by, Music (Misc. Credits), Music consultant
- Tarris, Dave, and his Trio … Music Group
- The Mazel-Tones … Music Group
- Voice of the Turtle … Music Group
- Eclectricity … Music Group
- Benzion Shenker … Singer
- Laura Pomerantz … Singer
- Mark Slobin … Music (Misc. Credits), Music consultant
- Velvel Pasternak … Music (Misc. Credits), Music consultant
- Theodore Bikel … Host