Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:

(812) 855-4124

Email:

davmcdon@indiana.edu

Department:

Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Courses Recently Taught

• Activism, Engagement, and Critical Ethnography
• Popular Culture and Politics in the Middle East
• Introduction to World Music and Cultures
• Popular Culture in the Middle East
• Music and Social Protest
• Music and Violence
• Music, War, and Peace
• Music, Identity, and Global citizenship

Publication Highlights

• "Imaginaries of Exile and Emergence in Israeli and Palestinian Hip Hop" The Drama Review 57/3: 69-87.
• Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press (forthcoming 2013)
• “Revivals and New Arrivals: Protest Song in the al-Aqsa Intifada.” In Music, Politics, and Violence, eds. Kip Pegley and Susan Fast, pp. 129-149.  Wesleyan: Wesleyan University Press 2012.
• "Carrying Words Like Weapons: Hip Hop and the Poetics of Palestinian Identities in Israel." In Min-Ad: Israel Studies in Musicology, 7, no. 2 (2010): 116–30.
• "Geographies of the Body: Violence and Manhood in Palestine." In Ethnomusicology Forum 19, no. 2 (2010).
• "Music, Folklore, and Nationalism among Palestinian Refugees in Amman, Jordan (2003–2005)." In the EVIA Digital Archive (2010).
• My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (forthcoming).
• "Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine." In Ethnomusicology 53:1 (2009).
• "Performing Palestine: Resisting the Occupation and Reviving Jerusalem's Social and Cultural Identity through the Arts." Jerusalem Quarterly 25, no. 1 (2006): 5–19.