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Indiana University Bloomington
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David McDonaldDavid McDonald

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • PhD., 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

Contact Information

davmcdon@indiana.edu
506 N. Fess, Room 105
(812)855-1499

Publication Highlights

  • My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance. (Forthcoming) Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • "Carrying Words like Weapons: Hip-Hop and the Poetics of Palestinian Identities in Israel" Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology 7:2 (2009)
  • "Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine." Ethnomusicology 53:1 (2009)
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