A historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate locations

Palestinian Music in Exile 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.

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The American University in Cairo Press

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Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Timeline of Key Events
Introduction: Strings of the Street: Resistance Aesthetics of a Nation in Movement
Chapter One: Za‘tar, Zeit, and Fairuz: Growing up Palestinian in Kuwait: Reem Kelani’s Musical Beginnings
Chapter Two: “Nothing Stops Tradition”: Dialects of Cultural Reinvention in Exile: Experiences of Palestinian Instrumentalism in Bilad al-Sham
Chapter Three: Village Dreams in Urban Gaza: A Young Girl’s Musical Intifada: Music and Land in a Palestinian Socialist Household
Chapter Four: Smashing the Pyramids: Encores of Palestinian Radicalism in Egypt: Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, the Cairo Underground, and the Sabreen Influence
Chapter Five: “An Even Tougher Act of Resistance”: Instrumentalism in the Dakhil: Saied Silbak and the Music of Internal Displacement
Chapter Six: “Ahla ayyam”: The Most Beautiful Days: Tarab, al-Watan, and Gaza’s New Generation of Musicians
Chapter Seven: Sumud and the City: Old and New Comradeship in Istanbul: Fares Anbar, Ahmed Haddad, and Palestinian Musicianship on the Turkish Migrant Scene
Conclusion: Where to?: On Music’s Meanings, Journeys, and Appropriabilities
Glossary
Notes
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