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My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance

My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance

McDonald, David A.

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AnthropologyGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryWorld Music

ISBN10: 0822354799
ISBN13: 9780822354796
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Nov 6 2013
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second Palestinian intifada, McDonald examines the shifting politics of music in its capacity to both reflect and shape fundamental aspects of national identity. Drawing case studies from Palestinian communities in Israel, in exile, and under occupation, McDonald grapples with the theoretical and methodological challenges of tracing resistance in the popular imagination, attempting to reveal the nuanced ways in which Palestinians have confronted and opposed the traumas of foreign occupation. The first of its kind, this book offers an in-depth ethnomusicological analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, contributing a performative perspective to the larger scholarly conversation about one of the world's most contested humanitarian issues.

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