A city haphazard : Jewish musicians in Los Angeles, 1887-1927 / Jonathan L. Friedmann.

Washington, DC : Academica Press, [2017]

viii, 118 pages ; 24 cm

This book looks at what happened before the birth of the 'Hollywood sound' and other twentieth-century developments.

"A City Haphazard covers a crucial but overlooked period of music history and Jewish life in Los Angeles through five case studies of nearly forgotten musicians. The shaky period between 1887 and 1927 had its share of ups and downs, successes and failures, milestones and growing pains. In their own ways, large and small, Leopold M. Loeb, Alfred Arndt, Victor Rosenstein, Abraham Frankum Frankenstein, and Walter Henry Rothwell helped lay the difficult groundwork for what would become a musical Mecca and home to the country's second largest Jewish population"-- Provided by publisher.

English

September 11, 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.