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Multidimensional I sraeliness and T el A viv's Tachanah Merkazit : Hearing Culture in a Polyphonic Transit Hub

Multidimensional I sraeliness and T el A viv's Tachanah Merkazit : Hearing Culture in a... Israel's heated public debate over the socio‐political implications of increasing demographic diversity plays out with special prominence in Tel Aviv, home to large minority citizen populations and a destination for foreign workers and refugees from Asia and Africa. The city's New Central Bus Station, or tachanah merkazit, is a transit hub and commercial complex in which multiple ethnic groups enact aesthetic and cultural dimensions of Israeli urban and national identity in flux. This paper presents a sensory ethnography of the tachanah: sonic and musical expressions of “local” and “global” Israeliness are analyzed against a backdrop of near‐constant motion and transit. The somatic and ideological dimensions of movement enable Jewish Israelis, minority citizens and foreigners to assimilate sounds of culture within the tachanah at deeply‐felt, personal levels. The tachanah's sonic activity is inherently political, having the potential to impact collective identity and civic reality in Tel Aviv and across Israel. (soundscape, sensory ethnography, migration, ethnicity, Israel) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Multidimensional I sraeliness and T el A viv's Tachanah Merkazit : Hearing Culture in a Polyphonic Transit Hub

City & Society , Volume 25 (3) – Dec 1, 2013

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 American Anthropological Association
ISSN
0893-0465
eISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1111/ciso.12023
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Abstract

Israel's heated public debate over the socio‐political implications of increasing demographic diversity plays out with special prominence in Tel Aviv, home to large minority citizen populations and a destination for foreign workers and refugees from Asia and Africa. The city's New Central Bus Station, or tachanah merkazit, is a transit hub and commercial complex in which multiple ethnic groups enact aesthetic and cultural dimensions of Israeli urban and national identity in flux. This paper presents a sensory ethnography of the tachanah: sonic and musical expressions of “local” and “global” Israeliness are analyzed against a backdrop of near‐constant motion and transit. The somatic and ideological dimensions of movement enable Jewish Israelis, minority citizens and foreigners to assimilate sounds of culture within the tachanah at deeply‐felt, personal levels. The tachanah's sonic activity is inherently political, having the potential to impact collective identity and civic reality in Tel Aviv and across Israel. (soundscape, sensory ethnography, migration, ethnicity, Israel)

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City & SocietyWiley

Published: Dec 1, 2013

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