Josh Kun a bit skeptical on the Milken Archive?
Jeff Klepper writes the Jewish-music mailing list:
Most of you undoubtedly missed pop-culture critic Josh Kun's musings in last week's Boston Phoenix, so here it is:
Gangsta wraps: The Milken Archive of American Jewish MusicKun is a Berkeley PhD in Ethnic Studies who authored the introduction to the re-publication of Papa, Play For Me, Mickey Katz's autobiography. His first book, awaiting publication, has the tantalizing title, Strangers Among Sounds: Music, Race, and America (UC Press).
I detect a note of sarcasm in his suggestion that a cover version of "Boyz N the Hood" might belong on a future Milken release. But on the whole he is asking the right questions, and his name-checking of Perez Prado and Slim Gaillard doesn't hurt either.
[I have been delighting in Kun's criticism of Jewish music, published in the Boston Phoenix for years. My only problem with this article is that it isn't long enough. ari]