''An excellent addition to . ethnomusicological studies of nontraditional music in America.''-- Choice ''A well-deserved look at the musical world of immigrant Jews, who, in finding and creating an expressive medium for self-identity, helped shape and give life to American popular culture.''-- Ethnomusicology ''Employing the tools of the ethnomusicologist and the social historian, Slobin has produced an important and highly readable account of the formation and function of a little-studied aspect of American popular culture.''-- Journal of American Studies.