The Heebie-jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk"Focusing on punk rocks beginnings in New York, this book is certain to change how we view not only punk music and culture, but the nature of Jewish identity since the Holocaust. It draws on new interviews with more than 125 people - among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), and Hilly Kristal (CBGB's owner) - to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements." "This mixture of biography, cultural studies, and musical analysis begins with Lenny Bruce, "the patron saint of punk," follows the story through pre-punk progenitors such as Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, Alan Vega (Suicide), and Handsome Dick Manitoba (the Dictators), delves into the lives of Jewish punks Richard Hell and Joey Ramone, and ends with post-punk pioneers such as John Zorn and Marc Ribot." "Originally known as New York Rock, punk began in that city because it could begin nowhere else - it was all about outsiders in the shtetl-like East Village, wiseasses with sharp minds and wounded psyches; it reflected the irony, the romanticism, and, above all, the humor of the Jewish experience. And via New York-dwelling Jewish Brit Malcolm McLaren, punk eventually made its way to England and then the world." "Ultimately a tale of changing Jewish identity in America, The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's reveals the conscious and unconscious forces that drove New York Jewish rockers to remake both themselves and popular music as we know it."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
The Patron Saint of Jewish New York | 1 |
The Godfather of Jewish Punk | 9 |
3 A Nice Jewish Boy Danny Fields Begets the Shaman the Misfit and the Punk | 27 |
4 Suicide Is Painful Martin Rev and Alan Vega Bring the Jewish Streets Indoors | 39 |
Cool Nerd | 49 |
6 The Ten Nuggets Lenny Kaye and the Compilation of the Ten Punk Commandments | 63 |
7 The Fiddler on the Bowery Hilly Kristal Sets Up a DIYCBGB OMFUG | 77 |
8 Juidos n Decaf Italians Irony Blasphemy and Jewish Shtick | 87 |
12 The Shiksa Goddess Chris Stein Creates the First Punk Princess | 149 |
13 HotsyTotsy Nazi Shatzes Nazi Imagery and the Final Solution to the Final Solution | 163 |
14 The New JAPS Jewish American Punks Jewish American Women and the Birth of Female Punk | 179 |
15 Write Yiddish Cast British How England Stole Jewish Punk | 193 |
16 A PostPunk History of a PreCool Jew World How the Radical Jewish Culture Movement Took NY Punk Further Downtown | 211 |
Epilogue One of Us | 225 |
Afterword Seeing God | 231 |
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The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk Steven Lee Beeber Limited preview - 2007 |
The Heebie-jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk Steven Lee Beeber Limited preview - 2006 |
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