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our popular culture borrowed
from it to make such things as
"Fiddler on the Roof'.
"Swanee" by Gershwin, "Fid-
dler" by Jerry Bock and TI Love
You" by Lionel Ritchie have all
evolved from Yiddish folksongs,
according to Dr. Jack Gottlieb,
speaking to a standing-room-
only crowd Saturday night at
the Jewish Community Center.
Much of today's popular music
can be traced through "recur-
ring melodic curves" to Jewish
folksongs and Hebrew liturgical
music, he said.
"In the 20th Century, they in-
fused popular music of the
United States with melodic ele-
ments from Yiddish folk and
theater songs and from
Ashkenazic synogogue modes
and tunes, which came to be
part of the American sound." He
demonstrated this theory re-
peatedly by playing popular
music superimposed over Yid-
dish folksongs. Songs such as
Gershwin's "My One and Only"
and Irving Berlin's "Blue Sky"
were among many highlighted.
"Much of Jewish music was
based on oral communication
rather than written," he pointed
out, and many composers were
influenced by melodies they
heard while growing up.
"For the first time since an-
cient history, Jews significantly
contributed to music of the
mainstream Tin Pan Alley,
Broadway, and Hollywood." The
Gershwins, Irving Berlin,
Jerome Kern, Richard Rogers,
and Jerry Bock are only a few of
the songwriters that were high-
lighted during the evening.
"Inroads made by Jewish song
into American popular music
were accomplished via four
routes," said composer Gottlieb,
a former assistant to Leonard
Bernstein. "Adaptation: altering
existing motives so that it is
more suited to the new
environment; adoption; utilizing
material not naturally one's
own; absorption; soaks up mate-
rial like a blotter, leaving an
imprint of some kind; and accul-
turation; stirring of ethnic fruit
into plain American yogurt (an-
other kind of culture), blending
both so that specific melodic
quotations are no longer distin-
guishable."
The "layer cake effect" de-
scribes how a portion of one
song may be repeated in an-
other. "Anatevka' in "Fiddler"
was based on two previous Yid-
dish songs, "Beltz" and "Z/utz"
also about hometowns. However,
"Anatevka" serves as the icing
on the cake.
Gottlieb infused his lecture-
demonstration with humor, nos-
talgia and audience participa-
tion. The third of five seminars
in Detroit marking the 25th an-
niversary of the National Foun-
dation of Jewish Culture,
Gottlieb's performance was fol-
lowed this week by seminars on
"Communicating Jewish Culture
in the 1990s" and "Consuming
Culture: Folkways, Music and
Folk Arts."

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