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    Illustrations v

    Note on Transliterations

    Note on Accessing Performance Videos

    Acknowledgments v

    introduction 1

    chapter 1.

    N, B, Pvy R 17

    chapter 2.

    P, S, S 34

    Voices in the Resistance ovement (19171967)

    chapter 3.

    l-Naksa E P S (19671987) 78

    chapter 4.

    T I G S (19872000) 116

    chapter 5.

    Rvv Nw Av 144

    Te al-qsa Intiada (20002010)

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    contents

    chapter 6.

    My S C R W N 163

    Baladna and Protest Song in Jordan

    chapter 7.

    I E 199

    Negotiating Power and Resistance in Palestinian Protest Song

    chapter 8.

    Nw D Nw M

    231Palestinian Hip-Hop in Israel

    chapter 9.

    Cy W Lk W 262

    DAM Brings Hip-Hop to the West Bank

    epilogue 283

    Appendix: Song Lyric Transliterations 287

    Notes 305

    Bibliography 321

    Index 329

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    Figure 2.1.

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    Figure 2.2.

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    Figure 3.1.

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    Figure 3.2.

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    Figure 4.1.

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    Figure 4.2.

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    Figure 4.3.

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    la bwab al-Quds (O

    J), v 146

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    ama al-qsa ( -Aq), v 147

    Figure 5.3.

    M S 156

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    illustrations

    Figure 6.1.

    K K 165

    Figure 6.2.

    B 168

    Figure 6.3.

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    example 2.1.

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    example 2.2.

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    example 2.3.

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    example 2.4 .

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    example 3.1.

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    example 3.2.

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    example 6.1.

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    example 7.1.

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    note on transliterations

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    ics. In instances where individuals, ensembles, or other organizations have

    readily adopted an English transliteration (or example,El-Funoun insteadoal-Fann), I have maintained their transliteration throughout. I adopted

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    note on accessing perforMance ViDeos

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    chapter 2

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    eia 14-a6184 | D dabke , wid wa ns

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    acknoWleDgMents

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    Hn). Wkng wth K v ntng ntnt

    t v ntv I h bn x t. In ntvw K

    w y . H v -

    y v J,

    y v k. D enthusiasm, there were ofen unavoidable diculties in our collaboration.

    Wk f- y , K w f

    vw, y w y , y

    y y . S, ,

    , R k ,

    , v wy. Gv y -

    800 pm, I w fn f wnng hw I w k t bk t

    y tnt n bbn An. Af nght, b n h vy , y w I k

    w . A k k A

    q , , . O

    I w vjy y y

    An nghbh, A. Untnty th v w t

    wy- f y wy I -

    w v y. S w

    , I v k A, k , , ghng nntby t th tng k n

    .

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    Ov wy wk -

    Aqsa intiada, the political landscape o the resistance movement changed

    nby. T An nvn Iq, th t nt-

    I y/ w, Sk

    Ah Yn n h (Ab Azz Rnt), th Ab Ghb

    n b n, th gnng th R M, n th th

    Y At h gnnt t n Ptnn ty n w

    . W y

    v, cd, v, ( w )

    v , , -

    gy, xng tg. M, t , w w n

    P y, z

    , . T

    ormed a signicant space in which commonsense understandings o Pal-

    y, , w y

    , .

    In th 2005 I tn t Ptn t bk n nw

    . Ov v y I , v -,

    wth g Ptnn I h-h tt nty -

    I W Bk. T v I ghtt Ly n ntgng t Ptnn

    y . Ty w P

    z I, 48, y v,

    w -1948 P. T y -

    A -

    P I -

    . Png n xt Engh, Hbw, n Ab, th

    ty kb tnty t nt nw - P , w

    w w .

    2005 I v P -, vw-

    , I

    W Bk. T y w w y w -

    v P I,

    A Jw, y

    . By ,tht, n tn tt xhbt by th thy -

    b n I Jw n Wt Bnk Ptnn, I

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    z , , w -

    P .

    Synopsis

    T k z w y :

    t thnht (ht 25); th n, thngh (ht

    69). Ethngt hv ng y ht n thn-

    gh thg n th wk, n th bk tny n x-

    . My -

    t, hfng b ht ntv t t thngh

    xn. Hwv, th vnt btwn th tw thg

    , y v .

    v y q y

    -

    y .

    T tntn btwn ht n thngh t

    wk q. w -

    v 25 w w y,

    w v y : - tnt-bvtn, ht, ntvw, n txt ny.

    My v w

    v t n th nty n (nv-

    , vw, v , ). A

    w . I

    wy y P v-

    , v v -

    y t. My ttt t nt n thngh hty P-tnn tt ng tt ht ntnng t vnt

    w wk y .

    On t v th vn th txt nt tw tn

    v . Gv k E- -

    gh n th hty n vnt Ptnn , th h-

    y 25 y wk

    v , -

    wk vy P y y y v y

    . y w

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    P , al-dabke, -

    ng gt tn, x, n t t ntn th

    y, v wk w k

    .

    v wk kw P y, kw

    , .

    Wth th n n, n ht 25 I v b ht v-

    vw P , y

    w . T

    careul musical and textual analysis I explore many o the dominant signs,

    yth, n nng nhnt t th ty, nttng th n-

    x tn tht nttt th t Ptnn ntn-

    . I 2 I v -1948 P-

    , w y

    shar al-murtajal (t-ng). T n th t

    N I 1936 G Rv w

    , z v

    z alln

    (y) B .

    Fwng th, I t th t n th 1948 w,al-nakba (th tth), n ngn Ptnn

    k. I A -

    Ey w

    Ptnn g th gn. I th -

    A N P

    ntn ntt n x n nt th n

    jv

    . W N A J W 1967, w y ,

    kw y Sk I I. I 3 w

    v k -

    A y.

    In ht 3 I ntn th ht ntv, bgnnng wth th

    P L Oz (plo)

    fd iyn ( ). T v y

    ntng th btn vnt nyz wth - P -

    tty ntt. Sgnnt t, ng, n ng wth

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    v j , , z.

    T P-J v w (Bk S)

    S S w

    P .

    I 4 I P

    198793. H I nt n ny th nng vv ng-

    v. T y z

    fd w nt by gy tn-thwng yth, th atl al-

    ijra ( ), Gz. T f

    h tn tn nng th ntn n th ty

    . I ,

    , , I, A -

    w j -O

    n nt th bgnnng th n -Aq nt. I bgn

    5 w vv w v,

    k y wy y f

    w w v -

    (jl al-thn).

    I 67 I v v

    k 1980 1990, K K. I y K

    I w - w

    y w , -

    , . S w P J-

    nn ntn, th tw ht v ht n thn-

    gh ny th tn n tv by

    w vv v-

    . Dw v -t, I ttt t v th n nttn Ptnn -

    n n th tt wht t tt tn, ntt,

    v w

    . v y -,

    w y ? A w -

    mative moves or experiencing and participating in the intiada rom aar?

    I 8 9 I f P-

    tnn h-h t w h by g yng PtnnI y Ly, y -

    Avv, I. A y , P -

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    w qky k

    y I W Bk. T v

    w y y

    P I y E, A,

    Hbw. T wk v nw v whn th tb-

    lished modes o Palestinian nationalism were resignied, inclusive o new

    . Py y

    wy v

    national ambiguity through the perormance o shared cosmopolitan aes-

    tht n t. In nyzng th t n t th nw

    wv - I y , -

    tn, n tnntn, ng n h tht tt

    w y.

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    notes

    Chapter 1

    1. Butlr, Bodies Tat Matter, 2.2. MDoald, Gographi o th Body.

    3. Avrill,A Day or the Hunter, a Day or the Prey, 3.

    4. Abu-Lughod, T Roa o Rita, 43.

    5. Ibid., 42.

    6. Ibid., 53.

    7. Ibid.

    8. Mahood, Te Politics o Piety, 9.

    9. T thouiologial litratur o atioali i ubtatial. Howvr, v-

    ral ky our hav b ifutial i y approah. Aog th ar urio,

    T Stat ad Ada Muial Produtio i Pru,Moving Away rom Silence, ad

    Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe; Stok, Ethnicity; Da-

    orth, Te Macedonian Confict; Moor, Nationalizing Blackness; Sugara, Iagi-

    ig th Holad; ad Buhaa, Perorming Democracy.

    10. Loka, Comrades and Enemies, 7.

    11. I a roudtabl diuio with variou hitoria Prry Adro publily

    alld or a rlatioal hitory (Agda or Radial Hitory). Othr holar hav

    ought to uovr th hitorial rlatiohip btw th Jwih ad Arab world.

    S pially Bii, Was the Red Flag Flying Tere?ad Te Dispersion o Egyptian

    Jewry. For a uiologial tudy o th rlatioaliti btw Jwih ad Arab o-uiti, Kahl, Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine.

    12. Sti ad Swdburg, Popular Cultur, Rlatioal Hitory, ad th Qutio

    o Powr i Palti ad Iral.

    13. Partr, Giving Voice to Stones; Swdburg, T Paltiia Paat a

    Natioal Sigir adMemories o Revolt; R. Davi, Palestinian Village Histories;

    Slyoovi, Te Object o Memory; Ptt, T Writig o th Wall; Olivr ad

    Stibrg, Popular Mui o th Itiada.

    14. Arbrut,Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt.

    15. T paralll opt o ouita ad loality wr dvlopd by Vitorurr (Te Forest o Symbols, 93111); ad Arju Appadurai (Modernity at Large,

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    306 Not to Chaptr wo

    17899), to udror th pro govrig phral ot o it

    ouity ad blogig aog oial ator.

    Chapter 21. [http://purl.dlib.idiaa.du/iudl/viada/14-S9039]

    2. T rr ad hr i to th hroi dd o th artyr. T ari o

    th Paltiia artyr i o adirabl that th artyr i i t tahig dath

    how to di.

    3. Ovr th our o y rarh I aw Yaa Mawil al-Hawa prord by

    a varity o Paltiia bl throughout th rgio. Wddig bad ivari-

    ably iludd it i thir t lit. Folklori da troup ooly ud th og

    a th bai or thir or otplativ routi, a Paltiia laial art ui

    bl ud it a th oudatio or a largr opoitio ad iproviatio, ada tudt bl at th Edward Said Natioal Corvatory o Mui (esnmc)

    adaptd it ito thir progra o Arabqu jazz.

    4. S Sugara, Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian

    Weddings; Akw, Perorming the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in an-

    zania; ad Buhaa, Perorming Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in

    ransition.

    5. Abu-Lughod, T Roa o Rita, 53.

    6. Rgardig urthr our o th rprtory o th idigou pot-igr ad

    th rita ovt Sirha, Al-Aghiya al-Shabiya al-Filatiiya, 11436,

    12549;Musua al-Fulklur al-Filastiniya; al-Zawati,Al-Wajh al-Nidali li-1 -Aghniya

    al-Shabiya al-Filastiniya al-Kuwait; Sbait, T Iprovid-Sug Folk Potry o

    th Paltiia; Barghouti, Dawr al-Aghai al-Arabiya al-Shabiya al-Itiada

    al-Filatiiya; Bar-Yo, raditioal Rural Styl udr a Pro o Chag; ad

    Shabb, Potry o Rbllio.

    7. T igia, trutur, ad aig o ug potry i Palti hav

    b tudid xtivly i th ld o olklor ad thouiology. S Capi,

    Weavers o the Songs; Eliri, Te Palestinian Wedding; Jayyui,Modern Arabic

    Poetry; Sbait, T Iprovid-Sug Folk Potry o th Paltiia; Sbyhat, T

    Zajal o Northr Palti; Yaqub, Pens, Swords, and the Springs o Art. For arly

    our o pr-1948 Paltiia potry ad pot-igr, Dala, Palastinischer

    Diwan; Sirha,Musua al-Fulklur al-Filastiniya; Saarialo, Sog o th Druz; al-

    Sawari,Al-Shar al-Arabi al-Hadith Masat Filastin min sanat 1917 ila sanat 1955;

    Barghouti,Al-Adab al-Shabi al-Filastini; Hijab,Al-Aghniya al-Shabiya Shmal Fi-

    lastin; Malha,Al-Aghniya al-Shabiya Shmal Filastin Qabl Aam 1948; a wll a

    th ay artil publihd by thJournal o the Palestine Oriental Society.

    8. wo dirt hitori o th Grat Arab Rvolt ar worthy o itatio hr:

    Porath, Te Palestinian Arab National Movement; ad Swdburg,Memories o Re-

    volt. Eah o th txt provid a itrtig outrbala o politial hitoryad popular ory. Epially iportat or th purpo o thi tudy i th lat-