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Ira Gershwin used to say:
Before rock, the theater song sat at the apex of popular music; the most famous songwriters were show writers, and the pop boys--the Tin Pan Alleymen--longed to cross the tracks, as Irving Berlin did, and George Gershwin, Jule Styne, Frank Loesser.
This interpretation of culture, is admittedly, of decreasing importance to an increasing proportion of the population, who place rock 'n' roll stars on the same scale of artistic accomplishment as Milton, Rembrandt, Mozart, Gershwin, Hemingway, et al.; because the last do not speak to them, they are peremptorily shouldered out of consideration.
1) Why is George Gershwin identified as being “of Russian-Jewish family” while Irving Berlin is described as “Russian-born, “and Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein as “American”?
As pop and theater have drifted apart, it seems that the rock crowd pays more heed to Gershwin's advice than the musical men.