Ilana Webster-Kogen
Biographic Data
| ID | 642184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilana Webster-Kogen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilana |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster-Kogen |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER-KOGEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5616-9487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moroccan Torah Scrolls
The Last Mosque in Tel Aviv, and Other Stories of Disjuncture
Ruins serve as a poignant reminder of loss and destruction. Yet, ruins are not always physical, and they are not always best understood through visual language—the sense memory of loss extends for displaced people far beyond crumbling monuments. Exploring the sonic element of loss and displacement is key to understanding the way people relate to the spaces they have to leave. This article explores the particular disjuncture of staging and commemo…
Bole to Harlem via Tel Aviv
One of the fastest growing sources of domestic labor in the Global North is Ethiopia, whose female population travels to North America, Europe, and the developed Middle East to work for remittances to send home. Once these migrants settle in cities such as London, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Rome, or Toronto, they organize themselves into cultural enclaves that navigate their positionality, namely the state, religious practice, and their bodies. While s…
Engendering homeland
For decades, the Ethiopian song most widely recorded and performed abroad was ‘Tezeta’, the so-called ‘Song of Longing’ that evokes love-sickness and nostalgia for a bygone time. Thanks to the Amharic lyrical technique of ‘Wax and Gold’, a singer could connote multiple meanings such that the pining of a lovelorn person could double as nostalgia for a place or time. Today, the many Ethiopians who live abroad and who produce and consume Ethiopian c…
Migrating Music
Book Review| May 01 2012 Migrating Music Migrating Music. Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck, editors. 2011. New York: Routledge, CRESC. xvi, 256 pp., black and white photographs, figures, index. Cloth, $140.00. Ilana Webster-Kogen Ilana Webster-Kogen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2012) 56 (2): 331–334. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.56.2.0331 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Se…
Engendering homeland
For decades, the Ethiopian song most widely recorded and performed abroad was ‘Tezeta’, the so-called ‘Song of Longing’ that evokes love-sickness and nostalgia for a bygone time. Thanks to the Amharic lyrical technique of ‘Wax and Gold’, a singer could connote multiple meanings such that the pining of a lovelorn person could double as nostalgia for a place or time. Today, the many Ethiopians who live abroad and who produce and consume Ethiopian c…
Bole to Harlem via Tel Aviv
One of the fastest growing sources of domestic labor in the Global North is Ethiopia, whose female population travels to North America, Europe, and the developed Middle East to work for remittances to send home. Once these migrants settle in cities such as London, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Rome, or Toronto, they organize themselves into cultural enclaves that navigate their positionality, namely the state, religious practice, and their bodies. While s…
Migrating Music
Book Review| May 01 2012 Migrating Music Migrating Music. Jason Toynbee and Byron Dueck, editors. 2011. New York: Routledge, CRESC. xvi, 256 pp., black and white photographs, figures, index. Cloth, $140.00. Ilana Webster-Kogen Ilana Webster-Kogen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2012) 56 (2): 331–334. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.56.2.0331 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Se…
Engendering homeland
For decades, the Ethiopian song most widely recorded and performed abroad was ‘Tezeta’, the so-called ‘Song of Longing’ that evokes love-sickness and nostalgia for a bygone time. Thanks to the Amharic lyrical technique of ‘Wax and Gold’, a singer could connote multiple meanings such that the pining of a lovelorn person could double as nostalgia for a place or time. Today, the many Ethiopians who live abroad and who produce and consume Ethiopian c…
Bole to Harlem via Tel Aviv
One of the fastest growing sources of domestic labor in the Global North is Ethiopia, whose female population travels to North America, Europe, and the developed Middle East to work for remittances to send home. Once these migrants settle in cities such as London, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Rome, or Toronto, they organize themselves into cultural enclaves that navigate their positionality, namely the state, religious practice, and their bodies. While s…
The Last Mosque in Tel Aviv, and Other Stories of Disjuncture
Ruins serve as a poignant reminder of loss and destruction. Yet, ruins are not always physical, and they are not always best understood through visual language—the sense memory of loss extends for displaced people far beyond crumbling monuments. Exploring the sonic element of loss and displacement is key to understanding the way people relate to the spaces they have to leave. This article explores the particular disjuncture of staging and commemo…
Moroccan Torah Scrolls
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)