Supposedly Mizrahi music was largely composed by European Jews in Western styles.

Evidence

Yet much of the so-called Mizrahi music was, in fact, written by European Jews with a Western musical sensibility. Oriental embellishments (and oriental performers) were grafted onto Western tonal and chord patterns. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 707

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the grafting metaphor in ‘Grafting & Growth’ — here the graft is cultural: European tonal structure with ‘oriental’ decoration overlaid, a genuine cultural grafting.
• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the grafting-as-narrative-metaphor thread from ‘Grafting & Growth: On Trees as Infrastructure’ — the way ‘authentic’ ethnic expression can be a European structure with oriental ornament grafted on.