The Song is Not the Same: Jews and American Popular Music - The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review

Provides new scholarship on the long-standing relationship between Jewish-Americans and the worlds of American popular music. The essays blend single-artist investigations with looks at the industry of music making as a whole. They range from Jewish sheet music to the risque musical comedy of Belle Barth and Pearl Williams, from the role of music in the shaping of Henry Ford's anti-Semitism to Bob Dylan's Jewishness.