Ari Katorza

Dr. Ari Katorza is a musician, historian, and cultural studies scholar. His researches concentrate on the fields of popular music, society, and history in Israeli and Anglo-American culture. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and teaches and lectures in various Israeli academic colleges and universities, among them: Rimon – School of Music, The Academic Center at Kiryat Ono, The Inter-Disciplinary Center at Herzliya, and Sapir Academic College.

His researchers received the Voodoz and Moshe Davis prizes in 2006/7.

Amongst his books: Tomorrow Never Knows – Rock in the 20th Century (Rimon, 2012), Pink Floyd - Tearing Down the Wall (Editor, Resling, 2014), A Stairway to Paradise: Jews, Afro-Americans, and the American Music Revolution, 1890-1965 (Resling, 2017), Unknown Noises: Punk, Post-Punk and New Wave (Editor, Resling, 2019). Another book, Listen to the Color of Your Dreams: Rock 'N' Roll and the Collective Unconscious, which fuses the field of popular music and Jungian psychology, is in its final stage.