Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 259 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
155652613X
Content:
Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people -among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn-this book focuses on punk's beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements, in both makeup and attitude. As it originated in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the early 1970s, punk rock was the apotheosis of a Jewish cultural tradition that found its ultimate expression in the generation born after the Holocaust. Beginning with Lenny Bruce, "the patron saint of punk," and fo
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Description based upon print version of record
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CONTENTS; Introduction - The Punks Were Jewish?!; 1 The Protocols of the Elders of Punk - Lenny Bruce:The Patron Saint of Jewish New York; 2 The Punk Zeyde - Lou Reed: The Godfather of (Jewish) Punk; 3 A Nice Jewish Boy - Danny Fields Begets the Shaman, the Misfit, and the Punk; 4 Suicide Is Painful - Martin Rev and Alan Vega Bring the Jewish Streets Indoors; 5 I'm Straight! - Jonathan Richman: Cool Nerd; 6 The Ten Nuggets - Lenny Kaye and the Compilation of the Ten Punk Commandments; 7 The Fiddler on the Bowery - Hilly Kristal Sets Up a DIYCBGB OMFUG
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8 Juidos 'n' Decaf Italians - Irony, Blasphemy, and Jewish Shtick9 A Jewish American Band - The Hebraic Foundations of the Ramones; 10 Der Übermensch!!! - Comic Books, Golems, and Super-Jews Christen PUNK; 11 A Jewish Hell - Richard Meyers Creates a Jewish Mother's Worst Nightmare; 12 The Shiksa Goddess - Chris Stein Creates the First Punk Princess; 13 Hotsy-Totsy Nazi Shatzes - Nazi Imagery and the Final Solution to the Final Solution; 14 The New JAPS (Jewish American Punks) - Jewish American Women and the Birth of Female Punk; 15 Write Yiddish, Cast British - How England Stole Jewish Punk
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16 A Post-Punk History of a Pre-Cool Jew World - How the Radical Jewish Culture Movement Took NY Punk Further DowntownEpilogue - One of Us; Afterword - Seeing God; Source Notes; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
9781556526138
Additional Edition:
Print version The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's : A Secret History of Jewish Punk
Language:
English
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