Tuesday, 10 October, 7 pm on Zoom

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Jews on Broadway

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Next up in Continuing Education, Stephen Whitfield presents on Jewish songwriters. For about half a century, from the period immediately after the First World War until the Vietnam War, a distinctive and endearing kind of music became central to American taste. From Tin Pan Alley's hit singles, this music spread to New York's stages and then, with the advent of sound, to Hollywood.  This music was overwhelmingly the creative achievement of Jewish songwriters. What did they do to make their work so ubiquitous and so memorable? How might these artists' own Jewish origins have influenced their take on the America that they celebrated -- and affected? And why did the centrality of Broadway to the nation's popular culture wane, to be replaced by other sorts of music?

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