Miranda Crowdus
Biographic Data
| ID | 136212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda Crowdus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Crowdus |
| SIGNATURE | CROWDUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1060-8899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Yellow Bar Mitzvah’
State-approved and -funded Jewish cultural heritage has largely focused on concrete tangible spaces or structures, such as synagogues and mikvaot (ritual baths), and material objects. They often represent and evoke an idealised, unchanging Jewishness of the past that is presumed to be acceptable to non-Jewish audiences, yet one that bears little resemblance to lived Judaism, whether past or present. Using hip-hop by Jewish subjects in Germany as …
Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State
Using an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersections of anthropology, Jewish Studies, and critical academic scholarship of heritage, this special issue presents ethnographic examples to explore the relationship between minority groups and the state through the prism of representations of Jewish cultural heritage in the European public sphere. On an empirical level, the articles focus on personal, community-led, and wider public discussions…
Jewish Music Pedagogies and Cultural Sustainability
This article applies the concept of cultural sustainability to Jewish music pedagogies through a comparative analysis of case studies originating in Germany and Canada. Using an interdisciplinary approach grounded in participation-observation ethnographic fieldwork, I propose new methods to gauge the potential for cultural sustainability afforded by Jewish or Jewish oriented pedagogical practices. The examination of these musical pedagogical init…
Decolonial Affordances
This article considers the affordances of utilizing practical applications of music, sound, and orality, as alternatives to the dominant visual-centric, text-based forms of communication in Religious Studies pedagogical settings. The premise of this article is that sound and musicking can be explored in terms of their potential to dismantle academic, discursive, visual-centric, and linguistic forms – some of which are so ossified in a particular …
Mizrahi Rap in Israel
This article uses ethnography and music analysis to compare the intertextuality of Mizrahi music and rap by two generations of hip hop artists in Israel. The perceived compatibility of the two genres is often motivated by apparent similarities between Mizrahiness and Blackness as two ethno-racial categories associated with disenfranchisement. We argue that varied musical approaches to combining Mizrahi music and rap reflect the ways that differen…
A Season of Singing
Sarah Ross's A Season of Singing: Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States documents the important work of feminist Jewish singer-songwriters in the United States from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century. The author combines a thorough historical overview with ethnographic fieldwork and reflection, including poignant moments of autoethnography. This methodological approach yields a sophisticated reading of broad social, politic…
Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History
Ethnographic encounters in Israel
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Ethnographic encounters in Israel
Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History
A Season of Singing
Sarah Ross's A Season of Singing: Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States documents the important work of feminist Jewish singer-songwriters in the United States from the 1960s to the early twenty-first century. The author combines a thorough historical overview with ethnographic fieldwork and reflection, including poignant moments of autoethnography. This methodological approach yields a sophisticated reading of broad social, politic…
Jewish Music Pedagogies and Cultural Sustainability
This article applies the concept of cultural sustainability to Jewish music pedagogies through a comparative analysis of case studies originating in Germany and Canada. Using an interdisciplinary approach grounded in participation-observation ethnographic fieldwork, I propose new methods to gauge the potential for cultural sustainability afforded by Jewish or Jewish oriented pedagogical practices. The examination of these musical pedagogical init…
Decolonial Affordances
This article considers the affordances of utilizing practical applications of music, sound, and orality, as alternatives to the dominant visual-centric, text-based forms of communication in Religious Studies pedagogical settings. The premise of this article is that sound and musicking can be explored in terms of their potential to dismantle academic, discursive, visual-centric, and linguistic forms – some of which are so ossified in a particular …
Mizrahi Rap in Israel
This article uses ethnography and music analysis to compare the intertextuality of Mizrahi music and rap by two generations of hip hop artists in Israel. The perceived compatibility of the two genres is often motivated by apparent similarities between Mizrahiness and Blackness as two ethno-racial categories associated with disenfranchisement. We argue that varied musical approaches to combining Mizrahi music and rap reflect the ways that differen…
Yellow Bar Mitzvah’
State-approved and -funded Jewish cultural heritage has largely focused on concrete tangible spaces or structures, such as synagogues and mikvaot (ritual baths), and material objects. They often represent and evoke an idealised, unchanging Jewishness of the past that is presumed to be acceptable to non-Jewish audiences, yet one that bears little resemblance to lived Judaism, whether past or present. Using hip-hop by Jewish subjects in Germany as …
Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State
Using an interdisciplinary perspective at the intersections of anthropology, Jewish Studies, and critical academic scholarship of heritage, this special issue presents ethnographic examples to explore the relationship between minority groups and the state through the prism of representations of Jewish cultural heritage in the European public sphere. On an empirical level, the articles focus on personal, community-led, and wider public discussions…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Judaism (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cultural heritage (2 works)