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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. "This is a book in which we see Palestinian music making Palestinian history. Crucial reading on resistance, with timely contributions by an impressive gathering of scholars, musicians, activists and organizers." --Martin Stokes, King's College London--Martin Stokes, King's College London Zusammenfassung Examines the many ways in which music has been a force of representation, nation building, and social action. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Palestinian Music: Surviving in Song Moslih KanaanehPart 1: Background 1. Palestinian Song, European Revelation, and Mission Rachel Beckles Willson 2. A Musical Catastrophe: the direct impact of the Nakba on Palestinian musicians and musical life Nader Jalal and Issa Boulos interviewed by Heather Bursheh 3. Negotiating the Elements: Palestinian Freedom Songs from 1967 to 1987 Issa BoulosPart 2: Identity 4. Transgressing Borders with Palestinian Hip Hop Janne Louise Andersen 5. Performing Self: Between Tradition and Modernity in the West Bank Sylvia Alajaji 6. Realities for a Singer in Palestine Reem Talhami interviewed by Heather Bursheh 7. Identity, Diaspora and Resistance in Palestinian Hip Hop Randa SafiehPart 3: Resistance 8. Performative Politics: Folklore and Popular Resistance during the First Palestinian Intifada David A. McDonald 9. Hamas' Musical Resistance Practices: Perceptions, Production, and Usage Michael Schulz and Carin Berg 10. Palestinian Music: Between Artistry and Political Resistance Stig-Magnus Thorsén 11. The Ghosts of Resistance: Dispatches from Palestinian Art and Music Yara El-Ghadban and Kiven Strohm...
