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| Author | : Allison J. Waldman |
| Publisher | : Citadel Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780806522180 |
A biographical tribute to Barbra Streisand, her fame, stardom, and personal life with photographs and illustrations.
| Author | : Neal Gabler |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2016-04-26 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0300220715 |
Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless. Neal Gabler examines Streisand’s life and career through this prism of otherness—a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention—and shows how central it was to Streisand’s triumph as one of the voices of her age.
| Author | : David Kaufman |
| Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2012-11-13 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1611683149 |
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity
| Author | : Colin Larkin |
| Publisher | : Omnibus Press |
| Total Pages | : 4183 |
| Release | : 2011-05-27 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0857125958 |
This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.
| Author | : Derek Winnert |
| Publisher | : Crescent |
| Total Pages | : 88 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780517184509 |
| Author | : Linda Pohly |
| Publisher | : Greenwood |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2000-02-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Barbra Streisand has enjoyed worldwide artistic success for more than three decades, and her recordings are a consistent and integral part of her multifaceted professional life. As part of Greenwood's series, Companions to Celebrated Musicians, this volume explores the musical life and style of Barbra Streisand and places her in the context of American popular music of the second half of the 20th century. Attention is given to other aspects of her career as they relate to her recordings. Chapters proceed chronologically and trace Streisand's evolving musical career and her successes. Analytical sections focus on musical elements, such as instrumentation and orchestration, melody, harmony, rhythm and tone, dynamics, and form, as they examine in detail Streisand's recordings and songs. This study of Barbra Streisand's music will appeal to American and popular music scholars and fans alike. The detailed musical analysis is written in straightforward prose. An appendix includes an album discography, song discography, and listing of other recordings and videos. An extensive bibliography serves as a guide to further research.
| Author | : Liz Sonneborn |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : 1438107900 |
Presents biographical profiles of 150 American women of achievement in the field of performing arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.
| Author | : Joyce Antler |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780874518429 |
Essays that discuss the portrayal of Jewish women in American culture.
| Author | : Marnie Winston-Macauley |
| Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2009-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0740788892 |
The Jewish mother feels her job isn't done even after death. You're never too dead to be a Jewish mother." --Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis * What do Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Jon Stewart, Bette Midler, and Natalie Portman have in common with this book? A Jewish mother. Is there such a thing as a Jewish mother? And if so, who is she? For the first time, best-selling Jewish author and humorist Marnie Winston-Macauley examines all aspects of the Jewish mother. Chronicling biblical Jewish mothers to modern-day Yentls, she creates a compendium using celebrity interviews, anecdotes, humor, and scholarly sources to answer these questions with truth and humor. * Contributors to the book range from Dr. Ruth Gruber and Rabbi Bonnie Koppel to Jackie Mason, Amy Borkowsky, John Stossel, Lainie Kazan, and more. * "The definitive source on Jewish mothers." --Eileen Warshaw, Ph.D., executive director of the Jewish Heritage Center of the Southwest
