Jews, Race and Popular Music

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Moanin' low: Jews, whiteness and torch singing
• Jews dreaming of acceptance: from the Brill building to suburbia with love
• 'Stay with me': torch songs and the assertion of Jewish difference in the 1960s and 1970s
• Jews and blues: the Jewish involvement in the 1960s blues revival
• The Beastie Boys: Jews in whiteface
• A Jew singing like a black woman in Australia: race, Renee Geyer and Marcia Hines
• Not quite English: Helen Shapiro's Jewishness and English exclusivity
• Visibly Jewish: Amy Winehouse in multicultural Britain
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.