Table of Contents

Part 1: Becoming American

1. Jewish Tin Pan Alley Composers and Musical Pluralism

2. Black-Jewish Integration in the Jazz World from the Swing Era to the 1950s

3. "Listening for the Black Sound": Jews in the Jazz Music Business

Part 2: Becoming Black

4. "Every Time I Try to Play Black, It Comes Out Jewish": Jewish Jazz Musicians Cross the Color Line

5. "Matzo Balls-Ereenie": African American Jazz Versions of Jewish Songs

Part 3: Becoming Jewish

6. Swinging Hava Nagila: "Jewish Jazz" and Jewish Identity

About the Author

Charles Hersch is Professor of Political Science at Cleveland State University. He is also the author of Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan and Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans.