Songs from "The Wall": The Play about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Ghetto, Partisan, Folk and Love Songs
(Folkways Records, 1961), 40 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Description
In 1960, the play The Wall hit Broadway stages. Little remembered now, this piece by Millard Lampell (based on a novel by John Hersey) was about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis. Here is the music from the playghetto, partisan, folk and love songs sung in Yiddish and accompanied simply by accordion.
- Content Type
- Music recording
- Duration
- 40 mins
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Drama, Judaica
- Label
- Folkways Records
- Release Date
- 1961
- Subject
- World Music, American Music, Music & Performing Arts, American Studies, United States and Canada, Europe, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá, Europa, United States, Poland
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá, Europa