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

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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Main Author: McDonald, David A., 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Arabic
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 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.