What are the newest aspects of Jewish music to emerge in the last five years?
The embrace of modern American music as a valid component of Jewish expression has led to Klezmer punk, Eastern European infused hip hop, Sepharic indie rock, and Hasidic reggae. Jewish music is nothing if not the appropriation of diasporic host cultures mixed with the traditions Jews carried from their previous homelands. This progression was stifled over the last 40 years in America, but beginning in 2002, we began to see a new emergence of uniquely Jewish sounds in these genres that had never before gained much prominence.
