• Run time: 57 minutes
• Country of origin: France, United States

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To its collective journey from synagogue choirs to Harlem hotspots, from Yiddish theater to musical extravaganza, from klezmer to ragtime, from symphonic jazz to swing all the way from the Bowery to Tin Pan Alley to
Broadway to Hollywood. FROM SHTETL TO SWING recounts the ebullient story of a musical metamorphosis born in darkest Russia, only to blaze across the sky of the Great White Way. FROM SHTETL TO SWING is based on exceptional archive material to which Fabienne Rousso Lenoir gives an unusual and lively treatment, and turns a fresh, scholarly, playful eye to the cultural attitudes and musical styles that proliferated throughout this extraordinarily rich period.(more)

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  Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir

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  Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir

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  Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Larry Hart, Benny Goodman, Al Jolson, the Marx Brothers, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Molly Picon, Eddie Cantor, Sholom Secunda, Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Harold Arlen, Artie Shaw Betty Boop, Cab Calloway,Duke Ellington...

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