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My voice is my weapon : music, nationalism, and the poetics of Palestinian resistance /

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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, M...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonald, David A., 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2013]
Edition:[Open access version].
Subjects:
Palestinian Arabs > Music > History and criticism.
Music > Political aspects > Israel.
Music > Political aspects > Gaza Strip.
Music > Political aspects > West Bank.
Palestiniens > Musique > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Aspect politique > Israël.
Musique > Aspect politique > Gaza, Bande de.
Musique > Aspect politique > Cisjordanie.
Music > Political aspects
Palestinian Arabs > Music
Gaza Strip
Israel
West Bank
Nahostkonflikt
Politisches Lied
Politische Lyrik
Musikwissenschaft
Arabische Musik
Palästinensische Autonomiegebiete
Yiśraʼel
Gazastreifen
Westjordanland
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Nationalism, belonging, and the performativity of resistance
  • Poets, singers, and songs : voices in the resistance movement (1917-1967)
  • Al-Naksa and the emergence of political song (1967-1987)
  • The first Intifada and the generation of the Stones (1987-2000)
  • Revivals and new arrivals: the al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-2010)
  • "My songs can reach the whole nation" : Baladna and protest song in Jordan
  • Imprisonment and exile : negotiating power and resistance in Palestinian protest song
  • New directions and new modalities : Palestinian hip-hop in Israel
  • "Carrying words like weapons" : DAM brings hip-hop to the West Bank.