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Jewlia Eisenberg
Jewlia Eisenberg performing in Tel Aviv, Israel, 25 August 2007.
Background information
Born
1970/1971 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Origin
New York City, U.S.
Died
(aged 50) Oakland, California, U.S.
Genres
avant-garde, modern classical music
Years active
1998–2021
Labels
Tzadik, Recommended Records (RéR)
Website
charminghostess.com
Musical artist
Jewlia Eisenberg (1970/1971 – March 11, 2021) was an American singer, composer, bassist, educator, and cantor. As founder and bandleader of Charming Hostess she coined the term "Nerdy-Sexy-Commie-Girly"[1] to describe her genre of music which spans an eclectic range of styles.
Originally from New York City, Eisenberg became an integral member of the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York Downtown music scenes in the 1990s.[2]
Her music was both physical, using voices, vocal percussion, handclaps, heartbeats, sex-breath, silence, and also intellectual, exploring such topics as Bosnian genocide in Sarajevo Blues (2004) and the political/erotic nexus of Walter Benjamin and his Marxist muse in Trilectic (2002). Both of these works were released on John Zorn's Radical Jewish Series on Tzadik.[3]
She was commissioned from such sources as by the Sloan Foundation and the Goethe Institut SF and has received numerous awards, including: Trust for Mutual Understanding grant for collaboration with poets in ex-Yugoslavia, the Puffin Foundation grant for her Red Rosa project, a Katzenstein Fellow for collaboration with experimental architects and engineers as an Artist-In-Residence at MIT, a Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production Fund Grant for 'The Grim Arithmetic of Water, with aerial dance choreographer Jo Kreiter, a Goldman Fund Tikea Fellow for project-based radical film and music work with youth, and a Weisz Fellow for field research and recording among Jewish women in the Gondar region of Ethiopia. Eisenberg enjoyed a retreat as part of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in October–November 2006.[citation needed]
^Shalev, Asaf (2021-03-16). "Musical intellectual and Jewish radical Jewlia Eisenberg dies at 50". Times of Israel. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
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