Books by Miranda Crowdus
This article uses ethnography and music analysis to compare the intertextuality of Mizrahi music ... more This article uses ethnography and music analysis to compare the intertextuality of Mizrahi music and rap by two generations of hip hop artists in Israel. The perceived compatibility of the two genres is often motivated by apparent similarities between Mizrahiness and Blackness as two ethnoracial categories associated with disenfranchisement. We argue that varied musical approaches to combining Mizrahi music and rap reflect the ways that different generations have negotiated local and global cultural spaces. Early rappers in Israel, who regarded Mizrahi music and rap as two distinct genres, tended to compose a rather mechanistic juxtaposition between them that suggests a perceived ontological gap between the local and the global. Conversely, contemporary rappers have been socialized in and make use of a virtual and borderless musical environment, a realm that arguably breaks down the logic of coherent musical genres and the cultural and spatial compartments they once seemed to occupy. This is reflected in their typical compositional style, which merges the two genres into a seamless, indistinguishable form. The case of "Mizrahi rap" demonstrates how global trends are inscribed into local negotiations of ethnicity and how the perceived relatedness between ethnic and racial categories (i.e., Mizrahiness and Blackness) defines new conceptions of the global sphere itself.
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Living Histories, 2022
This article illustrates how historical narratives can be challenged in film in subtle ways throu... more This article illustrates how historical narratives can be challenged in film in subtle ways through the musical selections of the film soundtrack. Here, an analysis of Indigenous filmmaker, Lisa Jackson's, soundtrack to the short film "Intemperance"-including both diegetic and non-diegetic sounds and music-reveals a "cinematic mediation of historical trauma" 1 as well as a nuanced and satirical challenge to Western colonial historical revisionism. More broadly, this explores a new genre of cinematic exploration led by Indigenous women film makers in Canada that seeks to carve out spaces for new aesthetic orientations for Indigenous cinematic productions and other forms of Indigenous arts-creation practices.
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Peter Lang, 2018
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Synagogue and Museum: Schriftenreihe der Bet Tfila, 2018
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Review of Assaf Shelleg's book (2014)
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Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 19, 2023
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Ethno musicology, Feb 1, 2024
This article uses ethnography and music analysis to compare the intertextuality of Mizrahi music ... more This article uses ethnography and music analysis to compare the intertextuality of Mizrahi music and rap by two generations of hip hop artists in Israel. The perceived compatibility of the two genres is often motivated by apparent similarities between Mizrahiness and Blackness as two ethnoracial categories associated with disenfranchisement. We argue that varied musical approaches to combining Mizrahi music and rap reflect the ways that different generations have negotiated local and global cultural spaces. Early rappers in Israel, who regarded Mizrahi music and rap as two distinct genres, tended to compose a rather mechanistic juxtaposition between them that suggests a perceived ontological gap between the local and the global. Conversely, contemporary rappers have been socialized in and make use of a virtual and borderless musical environment, a realm that arguably breaks down the logic of coherent musical genres and the cultural and spatial compartments they once seemed to occupy. This is reflected in their typical compositional style, which merges the two genres into a seamless, indistinguishable form. The case of "Mizrahi rap" demonstrates how global trends are inscribed into local negotiations of ethnicity and how the perceived relatedness between ethnic and racial categories (i.e., Mizrahiness and Blackness) defines new conceptions of the global sphere itself.
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Presses de l'Université Laval eBooks, May 3, 2023
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Living Histories: A Past Studies Journal
This article addresses Indigenous film-maker, Lisa Jackson’s, skillful and strategic integration ... more This article addresses Indigenous film-maker, Lisa Jackson’s, skillful and strategic integration of selections of Western Art Music from the Early and Late Classical period in the soundtracks of her recent films. This strategy draws attention to indigenous perspectives on economic and cultural sustainability, as well as to the threat posed to indigenous continuity by colonialist legacies, past and present. In Jackson’s films, the excerpts from Western Art Music comprising the musical score “takes over” the narrative; their sound is pleasant, but unseen, insidious and triumphant, ultimately a duplicitous and malevolent dominating force. In my view, the selections from Western Art Music function as a metaphor for the unseen, insidious and ever-present forces of colonialism that control the negative behaviors and lives of the indigenous protagonists in the film narrative. This metaphor functions on both macro (formal and performative) and micro (melodic and chordal) levels. On a meta-n...
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Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal, 2015
Four consecutive mishnayot , Mishna Ketubot 7.7-7.10, concerning the rights of men and women to e... more Four consecutive mishnayot , Mishna Ketubot 7.7-7.10, concerning the rights of men and women to end marriage and betrothal are examined through the lens of two overlapping theoretical frames, anthropology of the senses and legal aesthetics, in the process expanding traditional scholarly methodologies used to examine early rabbinic halakhah and the culture in which it emerged through the use of interdisciplinary theory. Using these theoretical frames, as yet unexploited as far as rabbinic halakhah is concerned, this study highlights the intersection of sensory experience and gender in rabbinic ideologies of marriage, through analysis of the language, rhetoric and formal structure of early rabbinic halakhic texts.
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Chapter 9: Deviance, Polyvalence and Musical ‘Third Space’: Negotiating Boundaries of Jewishness ... more Chapter 9: Deviance, Polyvalence and Musical ‘Third Space’: Negotiating Boundaries of Jewishness at Palestinian Hip Hop Performances in the Tel Aviv-Yafo Underground
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