TABLE OF CONTENTS
What makes up American Yiddish Music
1. Ashkenazi Instrumental Music in the Old World
Biblical to Middle Ages
European
Performance Venues and Musical Genres
Enlightenment
2. The Diaspora and Evolution of Yiddish Music in America, 1900-1945
Yiddish Theatre
Heyday of Yiddish Instrumental Music
Some Attempts at Jewish Fusion Music in the 1930s and 40s
Bei Mir Bistu Sheyn
Freilach in Swing / And the Angles Sing
Yiddish Melodies in Swing Time
Savoy Sessions
3. New Fusions of Yiddish and American Musical Forms, 1945-1970
1945 to 1970
Postwar American Cultural Context
4. Fusion Musicians of the 1950s and 1960s
Dave Tarras - Sammy Musiker
Mickey Katz
Irving Fields
Terry Gibbs
Shelly Manne
5. Five Jewish Fusion Albums Examined in Depth
Bagels and Bongos
Tanz!
Music for Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, and Brisses
My Son the Jazz Drummer!
Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime
Al Tijuana and His Jewish Brass
Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos
Raisins and Almonds Cha Cha Cha and Merengues
Bei Mir “Twist” Du Schön and Twistin the Freilach
Books
Articles
Discography
Here is my masters thesis as submitted to Brooklyn College in December 2008 with slight changes to fit being published on the web. The largest change is the addition of 30 second audio examples in place of an included CD of audio examples.