Becoming Mediterranean: Greek Popular Music and Ethno-Class Politics in Israel, 1952-1982
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Oded Erez
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Levitz, Tamara Judith-Marie
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California, Los Angeles
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
298
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Eidsheim, Nina; Seroussi, Edwin; Taylor, Timothy D.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-93262-0
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Musicology
Body granting the degree
University of California, Los Angeles
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2016
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This dissertation provides a history of the practice of Greek popular music in Israel from the early 1950s to the 1980s, demonstrating how it played a significant role in processes of ethnization. I argue that it was the ambiguous play between Greek music's discursive value (its "image") and the semiotic potential of its sound and music-adjacent practices, that allowed for its double-reception by Euro-Israeli elites and Working-class immigrants from Arab and Muslim countries (Mizrahim). This ambiguity positioned Greek music as a site for bypassing, negotiating, and subverting the dichotomy between Jew and Arab. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle Eastern history; Music; Film studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Cosmopolitanism;Ethnicity;Greek music;Israel;Mizrahi;Popouar music