Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-28376-1
Ph.D.
Music
City University of New York
2014
This dissertation examines the role of musical practices in the synagogue life of Maroka'im (Moroccan Jews) in Brooklyn, New York. Living in an urban setting known for its diverse and robust Jewish life, community members utilize several different types of musical expression to emblematize three distinct diasporic ethnic identities: Jewish (of ancient Israel), Sephardi (Spanish), and Maroka'i (Moroccan). Based upon ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2008 and 2013, this study demonstrates how Maroka'im in Brooklyn use musical expressions to evoke more than one sense of diaspora consciousness-Jewish, Sephardi, and Maroka'i-to foster what I term a layered diaspora consciousness.
Music; Ethnic studies; Judaic studies
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Arab music;Diaspora;Jewish music;Moroccan jewish music;Music and identity;Sephardic music