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Does that make it less treif? Can we listen to jazz now?
Kenny G is still popular
Ah but Kenny G isn’t a Goy
Actually I didnt know that Kenny G was jewish, but I dont think thats what the OP meant.
When people refer to goyish music vs. Jewish music, they don’t put in in the latter category just because the artist’s mother was Jewish.
According to some Jewish music is only things like Chassidic Niggunim and not even Klezmer music (Think Hava Negilla) which really is jewish music, but has become associated with secular Judaism
When people refer to goyish music vs. Jewish music, they don’t put in in the latter category just because the artist’s mother was Jewish.
No, usually they refer to whether the artist was frum.
It’s a pretty crude metric for whatever the real distinction being attempted is. It works ok for its purpose, but there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that it’s inherently a bit stupid.
To make it a bit less crude, I would add that it’s usually Jewish themed.
There are frum musicians whose audience isn’t frum, and I wouldn’t call their music “Jewish music”.
There are frum musicians whose audience isn’t frum, and I wouldn’t call their music “Jewish music”.
Example?
Some of Andy Statman’s music.
I believe there are some frum classical musicians.
There is one type of “Jewish music” that is neither “Jewish” nor “music”: that junk that assaults one’s ears in New York-area supermarkets. The “music” (as distinguished from the lyrics) is Israeli pop music which sounds like generic pop music of the US and Western Europe and is awful and has nothing Jewish about it. The lyrics – I only know the English lyrics – are too simple-minded to be Jewish, and the singers have absolutely no training other than listening to other singers of the same junk.
A lot of jazz and other music is themed around romance that is not connected with marriage, and I do not see how it can be considered acceptable listening for frum Jews.
“There are frum musicians whose audience isn’t frum, and I wouldn’t call their music “Jewish music”.”
There are many not frum and even not jewish musicians whose audience is frum (a good percentage of the musicians who play in todays bands at weddings). Does this mean people are dancing to non jewish music at weddings?
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