| Series |
Refugees and migrants within the Middle East series
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| Contents |
Introduction: Strings of the street: resistance aesthetics of a nation in movement -- Za'atar, Zeit, and Fairuz: growing up Palestinian in Kuwait: Reem Kelani's musical beginnings -- 'Nothing stops tradition': dialects of cultural reinvention in exile: experiences of Palestinian instrumentalism in Bilad al-Sham -- Village dreams in urban Gaza: a young girl's musical intifada: music and land in a Palestinian socialist household -- Smashing the pyramids: encores of Palestinian radicalism in Egypt: Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, the Cairo underground, and the Sabreen influence -- 'An even tougher act of resistance': instrumentalism in the Dakhil Saied Silbak and the music of internal displacement -- Ahla Ayām': the most beautiful days: Tarab, al-Waṭan, and Gaza's new generation of musicians -- Sumud and the city: old and new comradeship in Istanbul: Fares Anbar, Ahmed Haddad, and the Turkish migrant scene -- Conclusion: where to? On music's meanings, journeys, and appropriabilities. |
| Abstract |
This book is a historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate and undocumented locations. The stories taking center stage show creatively divergent and revolutionary performance springing from conditions of colonialism, repression, and underdevelopment. What role does music play in the social spaces of Palestinian exile? How are the routes and roadblocks to musical success impacted by regional and international power structures? And how are questions of style, genre, or national tradition navigated by Palestinian musicians? Based on seven years of research in Europe and the Middle East, this timely and inspiring collection of musical ethnographies is the first oral history of contemporary Palestinian musicianship to appear in book form, and the only study to encompass such a broad range of experiences of the ghurba, or place of exile. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-307) and index. |
| LCCN | 2023014097 |
| ISBN | 9781649033048 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1649033044 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
