Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material If it wasn't for the Irish and the Jews' : Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley, Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley / Title from program flyer: Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture / American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-12-01
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Title
- If it wasn't for the Irish and the Jews' : Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley,
Other Title
- Irish and Jewish influences on the music of vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley
- Title from program flyer: Benjamin Botkin folklife lecture
- American Folklife Center lecture, 2009-12-01
Summary
- Video recording of a lecture delivered by Mick Moloney in the Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, on December 1, 2009, as part of the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture series sponsored by the American Folklife Center. In vaudeville's heyday between 1880 and 1920, Irish and Jewish collaborations on stage were commonplace. They were attended by all sorts of interesting identity ambiguities, illustrated in this lecture.
Names
- Moloney, Mick, 1944-2022, speaker
- American Folklife Center, sponsor
- Archive of Folk Culture (Library of Congress), collector
Headings
- - Vaudeville--United States--History
- - Popular music--Writing and publishing--New York (State)--New York
- - Jews--United States--Music
- - Irish Americans--Music
- - Composers--United States
- - Jewish composers--United States
- - Irish Americans--Ethnic identity
- - Jews--United States--Ethnic identity
- - New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs
Genre
- Lectures
Notes
- - Mick Moloney, speaker.
- - Recorded in Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on December 1, 2009 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
- - 'If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews': Irish and Jewish Influences on the Music of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley, Lecture by Mick Moloney (AFC 2009/038), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- - Video of the lecture is available online https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4805
Medium
- 1 folder.
- 2 videocassettes of 2 (MiniDV) (70 minutes) digital, sound, color.
Repository
- Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2009655480
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Access Advisory
- Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact