The Gate to the Village: Shlomo Carlebach and the Creation of American Jewish “Folk”

According to Carlebach, he wrote the melody for the song on his way to the performance, when he may well have been contemplating the connection between his music, its connection to sacred Jewish texts, and the music scene of the moment in New York's Greenwich Village in which he had become an a...

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Published in:American Jewish history 2016-10, Vol.100 (4), p.511-540
Main Authors: KELMAN, ARI Y., MAGID, SHAUL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bikel, Theodore
Dylan, Bob (1941- )
Folk music
Folklore
Holocaust
Jewish Americans
Jewish people
Music
Musical performances
Petrus, Stephen
Seeger, Pete (1919-2014)
Yiddish language
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Summary:According to Carlebach, he wrote the melody for the song on his way to the performance, when he may well have been contemplating the connection between his music, its connection to sacred Jewish texts, and the music scene of the moment in New York's Greenwich Village in which he had become an active participant as a singer, performer, composer, and somewhat marginal figure in the Folk Revival. [...]he turned Judaism inside out.79 In this sense, Carlebach entered the folk revival as a musician not knowing the extent to which he was already involved in his own folk revival, which is why his absence from any previous histories of the folk movement is lamentable.
ISSN:0164-0178
1086-3141
1086-3141
DOI:10.1353/ajh.2016.0058