Schedule

This schedule is preliminary, and is therefore subject to change.

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	Welcome, Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.	Opening Remarks Jeremy Yudkin, Chair, Department of Musicology & Ethnomusicology
9:40 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet Seth Rogovoy, Featured Speaker
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Paper Session I Chair: Basil Considine, Boston University
	“Every Time I Try to Play Black, It Comes Out Sounding Jewish”: Jewish Jazz Musicians and Racial Identity Charles Hersch, Cleveland State University
	The “Strange Fruit” of American Pop Katherine Turner, University of Houston
12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.	Lunch Catered Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Paper Session II Chair: Marié Abe, Boston University
	“My Yiddishe Mama” as Performative Jewishness Devora Geller, City University of New York
	Secunda, Gershwin, and Weill as Jewish Stage Music Composers Susan Filler, Independent Scholar
	The Negotiation of Jewishness through “Fiddler on the Roof”: Balancing Broadway, Tradition, and Assimilation Emily Joy Rothchild, University of Pennsylvania
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Jews, Music and the American Dream Ben Sidran, Featured Speaker
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Paper Session III Chair: Steven Katz, Boston University
	Down to Business: Herman Lubinsky and the Postwar Music Industry Robert Cherry, Brooklyn College Jennifer Griffith, City University of New York
	Brokering a Rock ‘n’ Roll International: Jewish Record Men In the U.S. and U.K., 1945-65 Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University, SUNY
5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.	Closing Remarks Jeremy Yudkin