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David McDonald

Adjunct Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

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(812) 855-4124
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davmcdon@indiana.edu
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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty
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IU Bloomington
Room 105
506 N. Fess
Bloomington, IN 47408

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.
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