And you shall know us by the trail of our vinyl
Subtitle: Jewish history as told by the records we have loved and lost
By: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun.
Contributors: Kun, Josh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780307394675
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Music -- History and criticism; Sound recordings -- Social aspects -- United States; Jews -- Music -- Humor
Genres: Humor.
Table of contents: title: Men's warehouse : the changing sartorial styles of the great cantors; title: The Yiddish are coming : how vinyl kept a dying language alive; title: Go down Moses : the music of black-Jewish relations; title: Who needs a synagogue when you have a record player in your living room? : the Jewish holidays as long playing records; title: Me llamo Steinberg; title: laughing at 33 RPM : the vinyl world of comedy; title: Oh what a night! : parties, weddings, love, and good old-fashioned happiness; title: The sound of suffering : Holocaust, Soviet Jewry and martyrdom on vinyl; title: Haifa on hi-fi : the ever-evolving notion of Israel; title: Stop singing our songs : non-Jewish masters of the Jewish melody; title: The folk explosion : the last days of Jewish vinyl.