The Jews Who Rock Around the Clock
Manna 69
Review of Rock and Roll Jews by Michael Billig
Publication Date: Autumn 2000
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Music
Category: Book reviews
Writings
Here you can find a record of almost all my publications – from scholarly journal articles to newspaper articles – listed with the most recent first. In most cases there is either a downloadable pdf or a link to the publication itself. You can search by publication type (academic, non-academic, book reviews etc), by theme and by keyword. Enjoy!
‘Roots’?: The Relationship Between the Global and the Local Within the Global Extreme Metal Scene [published under the author name Keith Harris]
Popular Music 19(1),13-30
Music's ‘malleability’ (Taylor 1997) has always facilitated its export and import from one location to another. Indeed, such processes are central to the creation and dissemination of new musical forms. Yet in our contemporary globalised world, such processes occur ever more extensively and rapidly giving rise to new forms of appropriation and syncretism. Record companies from the developed world find new audiences in the developing world (Laing 1986). Musicians from the West appropriate non-Western music, sometimes collaboratively (Feld 1994; Taylor 1997). Non-Western musicians and musicians from subaltern groups within the West create new syncretic forms drawing on both Western and non-Western music (Mitchell 1996; Lipsitz 1994, Slobin 1993). The resulting ‘global ecumene’ produces considerable ‘cultural disorder’ (Featherstone 1990, p. 6) whose results cannot easily be summarised.
An edited version of this paper also appeared in A. Bennett, B. Shank and J. Toynbee (eds) The Popular Music Studies Reader, Routledge, 2005 pp128-136
Publication Date: January 1, 2000
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journal articles
An Orphaned Land?: Israel and the Global Extreme Metal Scene
New Voices in Jewish Thought Volume 2, 1-21
German translation: ‘Ein Verwaistes Land? Israel und die Extreme Metal-Szene’ in Testcard 9, 2001
Publication Date: November 1, 1999
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews and Metal, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Book chapters
Exploring Jewish Space: A Critique of Limmud
In Rabinowitz R (ed), New Voices in Jewish Thought, Limmud Publications, London, pp 39-54
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book chapters
Music is My Life?: Discourse Analysis and the Interview Talk of Members of a Music-Based Subculture
Goldsmiths Sociology Papers, Goldsmiths College, London
Publication Date: June 1, 1997
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Academic articles & reports