An edition of My voice is my weapon (2006)

My voice is my weapon

music, nationalism, and the poetics of Palestinian resistance

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An edition of My voice is my weapon (2006)

My voice is my weapon

music, nationalism, and the poetics of Palestinian resistance

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--Provided by publisher.

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Language
English
Pages
338

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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 first intifada and the generation of 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
Appendix. Song lyric transliterations.

Edition Notes

"A portion of my ethnographic field recordings [have been deposited] with the EVIA Digital Archive Project housed at Indiana University ... As a companion to this text, my EVIA project ... allows the reader to view video field recordings of many of the performances discussed in this monograph"--Page xiii.

Text also available online via HathiTrust (http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/818953128.html ).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-329) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
780.89/9274
Library of Congress
ML3754.5 .M33 2013, ML3754.5.M33 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 338 pages
Number of pages
338

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27173190M
Internet Archive
myvoiceismyweapo00mcdo
ISBN 10
0822354683, 0822354799
ISBN 13
9780822354680, 9780822354796
LCCN
2013012813
OCLC/WorldCat
818953128
Wikidata
Q57234860

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