Sholem Stein

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Sholem Stein is the name of a fictional character created by American humorist Henry Jacobs and Woody Leafer for their radio show Music and Folkore, a radio programme dedicated to "world music".

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-''[[Music and Folkore]]'' was an American [[radio programme]] by [[Henry Jacobs]] on the campus radio station ([[WILL]]). It was one of the earliest presentations of "[[world music]]" to an [[American]] audience.
+Sholem Stein is the name of a [[fictional character]] created by [[American satire|American humorist]] Henry Jacobs and [[Woody Leafer]] for their radio show
+''[[Music and Folkore]]'', a [[radio programme]]  dedicated to "[[world music]]".
-Jacobs often brought experts in certain [[ethnic music]] onto the show to provide background information.  When no experts were available, he would not infrequently fake it - most notably in the case of "[[Sholem Stein]]", a [[putative]] Hebrew [[musicologist]] who claimed that [[calypso music]] had deep [[Rabbinical]] meanings.   These were largely improvised with humorist and colleague [[Woody Leafer]].
-[[Pacifica Radio|Pacifica]] station [[KPFA]] in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] started receiving tapes of ''Music and Folklore'' not long after the program began, so [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] audiences were already familiar with Jacobs when he moved to San Francisco in [[1953]] and took up the show in person.
-[[Moe Asch]], the founder of [[Folkways Records]], offered Jacobs the opportunity to release his first record, ''Radio Programme No 1 Audio Collage:  Henry Jacobs’ Music and Folklore'', in [[1955]].
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