Dr Abigail Wood
BA/MA(CANTAB) MPHIL(CANTAB) PHD(CANTAB)
Overview
Department of Music
Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music
Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies
Member
London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Member
- Name:
- Dr Abigail Wood
- Email address:
- aw48@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4243
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4699
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 512
- Office Hours:
- On leave 2011-2013
Teaching
Expertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
- Israel
Languages
- Hebrew
Publications
Book Chapters
Wood, Abigail (2008) 'E-Fieldwork: A Paradigm for the Twenty-first Century?' In: Stobart, Henry, (ed.), The New (Ethno)Musicologies. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, pp. 170-187.
Wood, Abigail (2005) 'Music.' In: Kessler, E. and Wenborn, N., (eds.), Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations. Cambridge University Press.
Articles
Wood, Abigail (2010) 'Singing Diplomats: The hidden life of a Russian-speaking choir in Jerusalem.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 19 (2). pp. 165-190.
Wood, Abigail (2009) 'The diverse voices of contemporary ethnomusicology [review article].' Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 134 (2). pp. 349-364.
Wood, Abigail (2007) '(De)constructing Yiddishland: Solomon and SoCalled's HipHopKhasene.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 16 (2). pp. 243-70.
Wood, Abigail (2007) 'Stepping Across the Divide: Hasidic Music in Today's Yiddish Canon.' Ethnomusicology, 51 (2). pp. 205-37.
Wood, Abigail (2007) 'The Multiple Voices of American Klezmer.' Journal of the Society for American Music, 1 (3). pp. 367-92.
Wood, Abigail (2002) 'Commemoration and creativity: Remembering the Holocaust in today's Yiddish song.' European Judaism, 35/2 .
Conference or Workshop Items
Wood, Abigail (2010) זהויות ומרחבים בעיר העתיקה של ירושלים: השמעה של כיוונים אחרים [Identities and spaces in Jerusalem’s Old City: sounding out new directions]. In: Identity and space: annual conference of the Israel Historical Society, April 8th, 2010, Open University, Ra'anana, Israel.
Wood, Abigail (2008) Sounding the city: music, place and identity in contemporary Jerusalem. In: Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60, April 13-14, 2008, Charlottesville, VA. (Unpublished)
Wood, Abigail (2007) Rebuilding Jerusalem: music and identity among recent immigrants in Israel. In: Annual conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, October 2007, Columbus, Ohio. (Unpublished)
Book Reviews
Wood, Abigail (2010) 'Review of Amnon Shiloach Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Jewish writings (2007).' Ethnomusicology Forum, 19 (1). pp. 119-121.
Wood, Abigail (2009) 'Review of Bohlman, P. (2008) 'Jewish music and modernity'.' Music and Letters, 90 (4). pp. 727-730.
Wood, Abigail (2008) 'Review of "The Rough Guide to the Music of Israel" (2006), "Putumayo Presents Israel" (2007), "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen" (2006) and "A Song of Dawn: The Jerusalem Sephardi Baqqashot at the Har Tzyion Synagogue" (2007).' Ethnomusicology, 52 (3). pp. 493-502.
Wood, Abigail (2006) 'Review of Seroussi, E. and Regev, M. (2004) Popular music and national culture in Israel.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 15 (1). pp. 168-170.
Wood, Abigail (2005) 'Review of Gottesman, I. (2003) Defining the Yiddish Nation: The Jewish Folklorists of Poland.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 14 (2). pp. 264-266.
Wood, Abigail (2004) 'Review of Tunkel, V. (2004) The music of the Hebrew Bible: the western Ashkenazic tradition.' Journal of Jewish Studies, 55 (2).
Wood, Abigail (2003) 'Review of Slobin, M. (2002) American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots.' Music and Letters, 84 (4). pp. 688-690.
Wood, Abigail (2003) 'Review of Braun, Joachim; trans. Stott, Douglas W. (2002) Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written and Comparative Sources.' World of Music, 45 (2).
Wood, Abigail (2001) 'Review of Slobin, M. (2000) Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World.' British Journal of Ethnomusicology, 10 (1). pp. 127-129.
Other
Wood, Abigail (2008) ''Jewish Music' and 'Klezmer' entries for Microsoft Encarta World English Edition digital encyclopedia.' Microsoft.
Wood, Abigail '‘Yiddish Song after the Holocaust’ entry for World ORT educational website on Music during the Holocaust.' London: World ORT.
