tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291247664835034127.post3166132483148883557..comments2024-02-26T10:21:44.313-05:00Comments on Teruah - Jewish Music: Hey Regina, Barth's your biggest fanJackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16150135572952331382noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-291247664835034127.post-51652500909029250172009-12-25T17:27:50.228-05:002009-12-25T17:27:50.228-05:00Jack: I would love that title. I am not sure I q...Jack: I would love that title. I am not sure I qualify given, just as a minor for instance, <a href="http://www.reginaspektor.org/" rel="nofollow">this</a>, <a href="http://www.respektonline.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">this</a> or <a href="http://reginaspektor.infopop.cc/eve" rel="nofollow">this</a>, among others, but I am honored to accept the title.<br /><br />Although she has written <a href="http://www.respektonline.com/songs.php?s=46" rel="nofollow">about sailors</a>, by the way, I don't think she qualifies as an admiral and you probably meant "identity" and "hereby" but as the king of blog typos, I cannot complain.<br /><br />I, too, <a href="http://edsbarth.blogspot.com/2009/12/musicians-filmmaker-and-christianity.html" rel="nofollow">have blogged about our exchange</a>, including my profuse apologies for impolitic and stupid shots I took at you.<br /><br />Here is, as I may have noted before, <a href="http://trueslant.com/leorgalil/2009/12/15/hannukah-modern-judaism-and-musical-mensches/" rel="nofollow">another person</a> who says he has "been able to find reflections of my background in the music of Regina Spektor" and that "Spektor’s sound tends to reflect her Jewish heritage... [and] is heavily influenced by Russian and Eastern European folk tunes that have traveled through Jewish communities throughout the centuries. These archetypically Jewish melodies manage to blend fairly well into Spektor’s 'alternative' sound, which has bolstered Spektor’s voice and made it stand out against a sea of singer-songwriters."<br /><br />My post <a href="http://edsbarth.blogspot.com/2009/12/jews-christmas-in-us.html" rel="nofollow">today</a> also raises some of the issues we discussed. Yes, we are "square" now.<br /><br />Shabbat Shalom.Barthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07358428327504448838noreply@blogger.com