Cultural intimacy at the conflicted borderlines of nation, ethnicity, and class in israel: Jowan safadi's music video "to be an arab"

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Abstract

In "To Be an Arab,"his first Hebrew video clip, Jowan Safadi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, addresses the populist politics and hate discourses circulating in the public sphere during and after Israel's 2014 war with Gaza. A close reading of the video and its reception aims to (1) unpack how cultural intimacy and ethnonational violence are intertwined in Israel-Palestine; (2) underscore the creative, emotive, interventive, and potentially subversive role that expressive culture and performance bring to this context; and (3) show how local heterogeneities (classed, ethnicized, gendered) and complex regional affiliations complicate what is commonly read in terms of a Arab/Palestinian- Jewish/Israeli binary.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)112-137
Number of pages26
JournalEthnomusicology
Volume65
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Cultural Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Music

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