Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : Faculty & Staff
David McDonald
- Assistant Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
- Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
- Director of the Indiana University Middle Eastern Ensemble
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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