The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk

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Chicago Review Press, 2007年4月1日 - 320 頁
Based in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people —among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn—this book focuses on punk's beginnings in New York City to show that punk was the most Jewish of rock movements, in both makeup and attitude. As it originated in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the early 1970s, punk rock was the apotheosis of a Jewish cultural tradition that found its ultimate expression in the generation born after the Holocaust. Beginning with Lenny Bruce, &“the patron saint of punk,&” and following pre-punk progenitors such as Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman, Suicide, and the Dictators, this fascinating mixture of biography, cultural studies, and musical analysis delves into the lives of these and other Jewish punks—including Richard Hell and Joey Ramone—to create a fascinating historical overview of the scene. Reflecting the irony, romanticism, and, above all, the humor of the Jewish experience, this tale of changing Jewish identity in America reveals the conscious and unconscious forces that drove New York Jewish rockers to reinvent themselves—and popular music.
 

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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
Source Notes
233

9 A Jewish American Band The Hebraic Foundations of the Ramones
103
10 Der Übermensch Comic Books Golems and SuperJews Christen PUNK
123
11 A Jewish Hell Richard Meyers Creates a Jewish Mothers Worst Nightmare
133

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Steven Lee Beeber has written for many publications, including Bridge, Conduit, Fiction, Heeb, Maxim, MOJO, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Playboy.com, Rain Taxi, and Spin. He is the editor of Awake: A Reader for the Sleepless, an anthology featuring work by writers including Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Joyce Carol Oates, and Davy Rothbart.

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