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Stig-Magnus Thors¿is Professor Emeritus of Music and Society at the Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University. His books include Music and Identity: Transformation and Negotiation and Social and Political Features of Music in Africa.
Moslih Kanaaneh is a social anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Birzeit University. His books include Talking Stones and Yearning Ruins.
Heather Bursheh is a performing musician and flute instructor at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, where she has also served as Deputy Director for Academic Affairs and Musical Director of the Palestine Orchestras.
David A. McDonald is Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and author of My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance.
List of contents
Introduction Palestinian Music: Surviving in SongMoslih Kanaaneh
Part 1: Background
1. Palestinian Song, European Revelation, and MissionRachel Beckles Willson
2. A Musical Catastrophe: the direct impact of the Nakba on Palestinian musicians and musical lifeNader Jalal and Issa Boulos interviewed by Heather Bursheh
3. Negotiating the Elements: Palestinian Freedom Songs from 1967 to 1987Issa Boulos
Part 2: Identity
4. Transgressing Borders with Palestinian Hip HopJanne Louise Andersen
5. Performing Self: Between Tradition and Modernity in the West BankSylvia Alajaji
6. Realities for a Singer in PalestineReem Talhami interviewed by Heather Bursheh
7. Identity, Diaspora and Resistance in Palestinian Hip HopRanda Safieh
Part 3: Resistance
8. Performative Politics: Folklore and Popular Resistance during the First Palestinian IntifadaDavid A. McDonald
9. Hamas' Musical Resistance Practices: Perceptions, Production, and UsageMichael Schulz and Carin Berg
10. Palestinian Music: Between Artistry and Political ResistanceStig-Magnus Thorsén
11. The Ghosts of Resistance: Dispatches from Palestinian Art and MusicYara El-Ghadban and Kiven Strohm
About the author
Stig-Magnus Thorsén is Professor Emeritus of Music and Society at the Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University. His books include Music and Identity: Transformation and Negotiation and Social and Political Features of Music in Africa.
Moslih Kanaaneh is a social anthropologist in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Birzeit University. His books include Talking Stones and Yearning Ruins.
Heather Bursheh is a performing musician and flute instructor at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, where she has also served as Deputy Director for Academic Affairs and Musical Director of the Palestine Orchestras.
David A. McDonald is Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and author of My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance.
Summary
Examines the many ways in which music has been a force of representation, nation building, and social action.
