Publications

Refereed articles in scholarly journals:

‘Creating Jewish Rap: From Parody to Syncretism’ in transversal – Zeitschrift für Jüdische Studien 1 2009 21-38

‘The ‘Failure’ of Youth Culture: Music, Politics and Reflexivity in the Black Metal Scene’ in The European Journal of Cultural Studies, 7/1 2004, pp 95-111

‘‘Roots’?:  The Relationship Between the Global and the Local Within the Global Extreme Metal Scene’ in Popular Music 19/1, 2000, pp 13-30

Other articles in scholarly journals

‘The Politics of Brisket: Jews and The Wire,’ Darkmatter, no. 4 29 May 29 2009

[with Fabien Hein] ‘Études Metal: Metal Studies: Une Bibliographe’ in Copyright Volume! 5/2 2006 19-32

‘I Hate This Fucking Country’: Dealing with the Global and the Local in the Israeli Extreme Metal Scene’ Critical Studies 19: Music, Popular Culture, Identities, 2002 pp 133-151

Chapters in scholarly books:

‘End of the World Music: Is Extreme Metal the Sound of the Apocalypse,’ in The End All Around US: Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture, ed. John Wallis and Kenneth G.C. Newport (London: Equinox, 2006).  22-42

‘Sozdanie evreiskogo repa: parodija, pastish, sinkretizm’ ['Creating Jewish Rap: Parody, Pastiche and Syncretism’] in A. Smirnitskaya (ed) Muzyika Idishkaita [Music of Yiddishkite]. Vol. 4.Moscow: MAKS Press, 2008, pp 128-150.

‘Exploring Scenes’ in Talkie Walkie: [jongerensubculture] 4 believers/non-believers, Acco, 2007 pp94-105.

[with Steven M. Cohen] ‘Beyond Belonging: Jewish Identities of Moderately Engaged British Jews in the UK’ in S. Cohen and B. Susser (eds) Ambivalent Jew: Charles Leibman in Memorial, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2007, pp67-88

‘‘Roots’?:  The Relationship Between the Global and the Local Within the Global Extreme Metal Scene’, in A. Bennett, B. Shank and J. Toynbee (eds) The Popular Music Studies Reader, Routledge, 2005 pp128-136 [edited reprint of a previous article]

‘Unspectacular Subculture?: Transgression and Mundanity in the Global Extreme Metal Scene’, in A. Bennett and K. Kahn-Harris (eds) After Subculture: Critical Studies in Subcultural Theory and Research , Palgrave, 2004 pp 107-118

Hungarian translation: ‘Nem látványos szubkultúra? Határátlépés és hétköznapiság a globális extrém metal színtéren’ in Replika 19: 65,  pp165–175, December 2009

‘Death Metal and the Limits of Musical Expression’ in Cloonan, M and Garofalo, R (ed), Policing Pop , Temple University Press, 2003 pp 81-99

[As Keith Harris] ‘An Orphaned Land?: Israel and the Global Extreme Metal Scene’ in Harris, K (ed), New Voices in Jewish Thought: Volume 2, Limmud Publications, London, 1999, pp1-21

German translation: ‘Ein Verwaistes Land? Israel und die Extreme Metal-Szene’ in Testcard 6, 2001

[As Keith Harris] ‘Exploring Jewish Space: A Critique of Limmud’ in Rabinowitz R (ed), New Voices in Jewish Thought, Limmud Publications, London, 1998, pp 39-54

Working papers:

Music is My Life?: Discourse Analysis and the Interview Talk of Members of a Music-Based Subculture , Goldsmiths Sociology Paper, Goldsmiths College, 1997

Book reviews in scholarly journals:

‘Music and Youth Culture’ by Dan Laughey, in Sociology 41/2, 2007

“Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament” by Adam Possamai, in Journal of Contemporary Religion 21/1, 2006

‘Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground’ by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, in Popular Music 18/1, January 1999