New York Noise

Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene

2015 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Performing Arts & Music (Adult Nonfiction)
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Though relatively fleeting in rock history, the "RJC moment" forged a new vision of Jewish identity in the contemporary world, one that sought to restore the bond between past and present, to interrogate the limits of racial and gender categories, and to display the tensions between secularism and observance, traditional values and contemporary concerns.