My voice is my weapon
Subtitle: music, nationalism, and the poetics of Palestinian resistance
By: David A. McDonald
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780822354680; 9780822354796
Subjects: Palestinian Arabs; History and criticism; Music
Description: 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.
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.
Table of contents: title: Nationalism, belonging, and the performativity of resistance; title: Poets, singers, and songs : voices in the resistance movement (1917-1967); title: Al-Naksa and the emergence of political song (1967-1987); title: The first intifada and the generation of stones (1987-2000); title: Revivals and new arrivals: the al-Aqsa intifada (2000-2010); title: "My songs can reach the whole nation" : Baladna and protest song in Jordan; title: Imprisonment and exile : negotiating power and resistance in Palestinian protest song; title: New directions and new modalities : Palestinian hip-hop in Israel; title: "Carrying words like weapons" : DAM brings hip-hop to the West Bank; title: Appendix. Song lyric transliterations.