Michael A Figueroa
Biographic Data
| ID | 110253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Figueroa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Figueroa |
| SIGNATURE | FIGUEROA M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In Search of Agonist Time
In this essay, the author explores the potential that ethnomusicology holds for studying the past’s instrumental narratives, reflecting on their long-standing research about the conflicted city of Jerusalem and the hegemonic spatiotemporal order at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Drawing substantially from the critical insights of Michel Foucault and Chantal Mouffe, and their commentators, the author theorizes genealogy as a means fo…
City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem
It seems obvious that modern Jerusalem, a city that is central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth century. City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Je…
Post-Tarab: Music and Affective Politics in the US SWANA Diaspora
In this article, I answer Anne K. Rasmussen's call for a "migration of ethnomusicology toward the 'Diasporic Domestic'" (2019) through an ethnographic study of post-tarab, a postmigrant aesthetic practice among musicians and participants in the Southwest Asian and North African diaspora in the United States. In documenting how this emergent musical vernacular promotes a sense of "diasporic affect" among participants through intersubjective musica…
“Behind the Sounds”
In this article I explore the aesthetics and political valence of shirei meshorerim (SM), a body of Israeli sung poetry that emerged out of a series of radio programs, festivals, and recording projects beginning in the 1970s and drawing on long-standing local practices in both Palestine/Israel and contemporary Mediterranean sung-poetry movements. I argue that the development of SM was characterized by an aesthetic distinction, wherein the high cu…
Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters
Book Review| October 01 2010 Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters. 2009. Benjamin Brinner. New York: Oxford University Press. 368 pp., black and white photographs, musical examples, figures, tables, glossary, discography, bibliography, index. Accompanying online audio recordings. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $25.00. Michael A. Figueroa Michael A. Figueroa Universi…
Post-Tarab: Music and Affective Politics in the US SWANA Diaspora
In this article, I answer Anne K. Rasmussen's call for a "migration of ethnomusicology toward the 'Diasporic Domestic'" (2019) through an ethnographic study of post-tarab, a postmigrant aesthetic practice among musicians and participants in the Southwest Asian and North African diaspora in the United States. In documenting how this emergent musical vernacular promotes a sense of "diasporic affect" among participants through intersubjective musica…
Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters
Book Review| October 01 2010 Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters. 2009. Benjamin Brinner. New York: Oxford University Press. 368 pp., black and white photographs, musical examples, figures, tables, glossary, discography, bibliography, index. Accompanying online audio recordings. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $25.00. Michael A. Figueroa Michael A. Figueroa Universi…
Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters
Book Review| October 01 2010 Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters Playing Across a Divide: Israeli-Palestinian Musical Encounters. 2009. Benjamin Brinner. New York: Oxford University Press. 368 pp., black and white photographs, musical examples, figures, tables, glossary, discography, bibliography, index. Accompanying online audio recordings. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $25.00. Michael A. Figueroa Michael A. Figueroa Universi…
“Behind the Sounds”
In this article I explore the aesthetics and political valence of shirei meshorerim (SM), a body of Israeli sung poetry that emerged out of a series of radio programs, festivals, and recording projects beginning in the 1970s and drawing on long-standing local practices in both Palestine/Israel and contemporary Mediterranean sung-poetry movements. I argue that the development of SM was characterized by an aesthetic distinction, wherein the high cu…
City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem
It seems obvious that modern Jerusalem, a city that is central to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious imaginaries and the political epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, is a highly contested space. More surprising, perhaps, is that its musical landscape not only reflects these rifts but also helped to define them as the ancient city transitioned to modernity during the twentieth century. City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Je…
Post-Tarab: Music and Affective Politics in the US SWANA Diaspora
In this article, I answer Anne K. Rasmussen's call for a "migration of ethnomusicology toward the 'Diasporic Domestic'" (2019) through an ethnographic study of post-tarab, a postmigrant aesthetic practice among musicians and participants in the Southwest Asian and North African diaspora in the United States. In documenting how this emergent musical vernacular promotes a sense of "diasporic affect" among participants through intersubjective musica…
In Search of Agonist Time
In this essay, the author explores the potential that ethnomusicology holds for studying the past’s instrumental narratives, reflecting on their long-standing research about the conflicted city of Jerusalem and the hegemonic spatiotemporal order at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Drawing substantially from the critical insights of Michel Foucault and Chantal Mouffe, and their commentators, the author theorizes genealogy as a means fo…
Art (4 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ethnomusicology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Musical (3 works)