Music in Conflict: Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Aesthetic Production
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Nili Belkind
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Washburne, Christopher J.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Columbia University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
411
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-03125-6
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Music
Body granting the degree
Columbia University
Text preceding or following the note
2014
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This is an ethnographic study of the fraught and complex cultural politics of music making in Palestine-Israel in the context of the post-Oslo era. I examine the politics of sound and the ways in which music making and attached discourses reflect and constitute identities, and also, contextualize political action. Ethical and aesthetic positions that shape contemporary artistic production in Israel-Palestine are informed by profound imbalances of power between the State (Israel), the stateless (Palestinians of the occupied Palestinian territories), the complex positioning of Israel's Palestinian minority, and contingent exposure to ongoing political violence. Cultural production in this period is also profoundly informed by highly polarized sentiments and retreat from the expressive modes of relationality that accompanied the 1990s peace process, strategic shifts in the Palestinian struggle for liberation, which is increasingly taking place on the world stage through diplomatic and cultural work, and the conceptual life and currency Palestine has gained as an entity deserving of statehood around the world.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cultural anthropology; Music; Middle Eastern Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Coexistence;Conflict;Identity;Israel;Palestine;Resistance