Christoph
Henzel: „A Jazz Singer –
singing to his God“. The Jazz Singer (1927): Musik im „ersten Tonfilm“*
The Jazz Singer (1927), the first feature-length
“talkie,” was also the first Hollywood film with a Jewish topic. It
details the conflict between a devoutly religious cantor and his Americanized
son (Al Jolson) who is eager for a career in show business. The movie lends
authenticity to the solicited themes of assimilation, independence, and
self-fulfilment by employing musical symbols of modern life in Jolson’s
songs and portraying the father’s world of orthodoxy as outdated and
foreign through (mostly compiled) background music laced with exoticism.
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