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Indiana University Bloomington
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David McDonaldDavid McDonald

Curriculum Vitae
WFHB Interchange interview - On Palestinian Music

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2006

Research Interests

  • Israel/Palestine
  • Performance ethnography
  • Social theory
  • Ethnomusicological study of violence and sociocultural trauma

Courses

  • Introduction to World Music and Cultures
  • Popular Culture in the Middle East
  • Music and Social Protest
  • Music and Violence
  • Music, War, and Peace
  • Music, Identity, and Global citizenship

Contact Information

davmcdon@indiana.edu
506 N. Fess, Room 105
(812) 855-4124

Publication Highlights

  • “Carrying Words Like Weapons: Hip Hop and the Poetics of Palestinian Identities in Israel.” Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology 7/2: 116-130 (2010).

  • “Geographies of the Body: Violence and Manhood in Palestine.” Ethnomusicology Forum 19/2 (2010).

  • “Music, Folklore, and Nationalism among Palestinian Refugees in Amman, Jordan (2003–2005).” EVIA Digital Archive (2010).

  • My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance. (Forthcoming) Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

  • "Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine." Ethnomusicology 53:1 (2009).

  • “Performing Palestine: Resisting the Occupation and Reviving Jerusalem’s Social and Cultural Identity through the Arts.”  Jerusalem Quarterly 25/1: 5-19 (2006).

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