Black Sabbath - View From Within the contemporary jewish museum

Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations is a musical journey through a unique slice of recording history--the Black-Jewish musical encounter from the 1930s to the 1960s. In contrast to the oft-told story of how Jewish songwriters and publishers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway transformed Black spirituals, blues, and jazz into the Great American Songbook, scant attention has been paid to the secret history of the many Black responses to Jewish music, life, and culture. From Johnny Mathis singing "Kol Nidre" to Aretha Franklin's 1960s take on "Swanee," visitors can learn how Black artists treated Jewish music as a resource for African-American identity, history, and politics.
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[loknloll]

yeah great video, denis.