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" Beyond the Lyrics: "
Karaman, Alexander
Joseph, Miranda
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1107377
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TLpq2444402482
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Joseph, Miranda
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Karaman, Alexander
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Beyond the Lyrics:\ Karaman, AlexanderJoseph, Miranda
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The University of Arizona
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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278
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| Abstract
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Based on fieldwork spread over five years, this project explores the significance of hip-hop practices to Palestinian identity formation. In each of three cities, Haifa, Ramallah, and Jerusalem, I highlight how space-making practices employed by hip-hop fans and artists ultimately support intersectional, differential, feminist, queer, and affective modes of identity formation and belonging. In Haifa, queer Palestinians regularly go out to hip-hop shows in "secluded publics," built environments that accommodate queer eroticism while supporting modes of visibility and mobility discouraged and policed in Israeli public spaces. In Ramallah, processes of music glocalization, structured by transnational hip-hop circuits and the prominence of foreign NGOs in the West Bank, reflect in the selective co-optation of global hip-hop culture by feminist space-makers who assert local concerns over safe space and sexual harassment while elaborating globally an aspirational feminist politics of public space. In Jerusalem, male hip-hop artists seek success in the more financially lucrative Israeli music scene, but doing so requires them to make certain trade-offs that reinforce masculinized, colonial notions of the abhorrent, violent, angry Arab (terrorist) while positioning themselves as the sort of Arab required and desired in Israeli coexistence logics. In each city and chapter, this projects contributes to Palestinian cultural studies scholarship on intersectional identity formation and youth culture in ways that assert the salience of space, place, identity, and affect to the experience of Palestinian hip-hop.
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Gender studies
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Geography
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LGBTQ studies
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Middle Eastern studies
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