Musica mizrakhit: ethnicity and class culture in Israel

Expressive forms of culture offer a look into changing social phenomena that have not yet crystallised into clear patterns or accepted categories. Accepting the view that music is embedded in the wider culture system, we use a particular form of it – popular music – as a means of investigating class and ethnicity in Israeli society. At the same time we attempt to deepen the understanding of the place music plays in society, and of societal influences on music.

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Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music

The Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021911812001763 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 5-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jennifer Milioto Matsue

Keyword(s):

Popular Music ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Social Issues ◽

The State ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

Vast Array ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

Nuanced Understanding ◽

Global Moment ◽

The Individual

Popular music is a dynamic portal through which to gain a greater understanding of a vast array of social phenomena within Asia. In particular, the power of pop to actively shape conceptions of self and inform the ways in which we interact with others at the individual, communal, and even national and transnational levels has taken center stage, but understanding just how these identities are formed through the performance of popular music is quite complex in the current global moment. Through comparison of recent scholarship covering diverse types of popular music throughout Asia, this article explores how identity formation is informed by an increasingly nuanced understanding of globalization. Moving from a most intimate sense to broad transnational and inter-ethnic contexts, it not only expands the concept of identity in Asia, but also reveals how the study of popular music in general can illuminate other social issues important to Asianists.

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Life beyond the planned script: Accounts and secrecy of older persons living in second couplehood in old age in a society in transition

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships ◽

10.1177/0265407510385430 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 44-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Chaya Koren ◽

Zvi Eisikovits

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Old Age ◽

Older Persons ◽

Israeli Society ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

Transitional Society ◽

Space Data ◽

Actual Life

Israel is a transitional society with a range of fluctuating social phenomena. Second couplehood in old age, as a case in point, can be located in the ambiguous space between non-normative and normative. The aim of this article is to describe and discuss how couples navigate that space. Data were collected within the framework of a larger qualitative study on second couplehood in old age among 20 couples in Israel. Forty individual semi-structured interviews were conducted, tape recorded and transcribed verbatim. Strategies of bridging between the normative script and the ambiguities surrounding actual life were identified. Bridging was achieved by accounts and secrecy. The discussion focuses on the transitional social context of second couplehood in old age in the Israeli society.

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The Boundaries of Social Transformation through Litigation: Women's and LGBT Rights in Israel, 1970–2010

Israel Law Review ◽

10.1017/s0021223714000284 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 3-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yoav Dotan

Keyword(s):

Women's Rights ◽

Social Transformation ◽

Israeli Society ◽

Social Model ◽

Women’S Rights ◽

Lgbt Rights ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

Lgbt People ◽

The Military ◽

Elitist Strategy

The global expansion of judicial power and the rise of litigation as a vehicle for social transformation are two conspicuous social phenomena that are subject to intensive research by social scientists and lawyers alike. One of the most hotly debated questions in this regard relates to the potential value of law in general, and litigation in particular, as a strategy for social change. This article examines the question by comparing the struggle for equality in Israel by two groups – women's rights activists and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists – between 1970 and 2010. The struggles of women and LGBT people for equality have many shared characteristics, since both challenge the traditional conservative patriarchal social model. In Israeli society, moreover, both LGBT rights activists and women's equality activists faced the same political rivals: the powerful macho-type socio-political mentality, rooted in the central status of the military in Israeli society, and the strong hold of Jewish ultra-orthodox parties in the political system. The strategies that the two groups adopted to overcome these obstacles, however, were markedly different. While women's groups adopted an elitist strategy of struggle that concentrated on legal measures, LGBT rights groups adopted a variety of strategies that emphasised grassroots political tactics. The article examines the success of each group in achieving its political objectives by using cross-country comparative indexes of LGBT and women's rights. I argue that the comparison between the two groups points to the relative weaknesses of legal and litigation-centred strategies as vehicles for social transformation.

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Errata

Popular Music ◽

10.1017/s0261143000003962 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 239-239

Keyword(s):

Popular Music ◽

Class Culture

The following errata appeared in the article ‘Musica mizrakhit: ethnicity and class culture in Israel’, in Popular Music 8(2):p. 131, line 13 – for ‘musica cassettot’ read ‘musicat cassetot’p. 133, line 11 – for ‘mizuq qaluyot’ read ‘mizug galuyot’p. 136, line 10 – for ‘leqaven’ read ‘legaven’p. 136, line 20 – for ‘mequvan’ read ‘meguvan’p. 136, line 21 – for ‘mesamakh et ha-qahal’ read ‘mesameakh et haqahal’p. 137, line 30 – for ‘vsheli’ read ‘vesheli’ and for ‘meshaqa'at’ read ‘meshaga'at’p. 137, line 31 – for ‘mifutzatz’ read ‘mefutzatz’; and for ‘mechir’ read ‘mekhir’p. 139, line 12 – for ‘amcha’ read ‘amkha’

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