Bagels And Bongos: The Jewish-Latin Music Connection
USC professor Josh Kun, who joins Alt.Latino for this week's show, is a co-founder of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, which in 2013 assembled a collection of Latino-Jewish music titled It's A Scream How Levine Does The Rhumba. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
USC professor Josh Kun, who joins Alt.Latino for this week's show, is a co-founder of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, which in 2013 assembled a collection of Latino-Jewish music titled It's A Scream How Levine Does The Rhumba.
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Find out more about the history of the cultural connections between the Latino and Jewish communities from NPR's Latino USA.
This week on Alt.Latino, we explore the deeply intertwined roots that connect Jewish and Latin music.
Professor Josh Kun teaches at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He's researched music history extensively, and he joins us to spin some awesome old records, including Celia Cruz's performance of "Hava Nagila" (who knew?).
Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, so if you've got more examples, be sure to let us know in the comments section.
Hear The Songs
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Celia Cruz
- Song: Hava Nagila
- from Latino Erotico
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Mickey Katz And His Orchestra
- Song: My Yiddishe Mambo
- from It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-80s
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Eydie Gorme
- Song: Sabor a Mi
- from 20 De Coleccion
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Rene Bloch
- Song: Mambo Chicano
- from It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-80s
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Xavier Cugat
- Song: Miami Beach Rhumba
- from It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-80s
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Machito
- Song: Mambo La Concord
- from It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-80s
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Ruth Wallis
- Song: It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba
- from It's a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-80s