Join us on Tuesday,17 September 2024, at 7pm for a book talk featuring Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance (AUC Press, 2023) with the author Louis Brehony.
Louis Brehony will discuss his book and its themes at Oriental Hall on the AUC Tahrir Square Campus, followed by a Q&A session where you can ask questions and engage directly with the author.
*Attendance requires prior registration due to limited seating and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Register here.
About the book:
Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance is a historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate locations.
Palestinian Music in Exile is a historical and contemporary study of Palestinian musicianship in exile in the Middle East, spanning half a century in disparate locations, including Gaza, Turkey, Kuwait, and Egypt. Grassroots musicians emerge here as powerful actors, their stories taking center stage, offering critiques of existing conditions, and new perspectives on displacement and the transmission of Palestinian narratives, and presenting alternative visions for the future.
Louis Brehony argues that, under conditions of colonial relations and repeated displacement, the reclaiming of public space has gone hand in hand with aesthetic revolution, both broadening and traditionalizing the sounds of Palestine and carrying messages of sumud (steadfastness) and resistance. Based on a decade’s research in Europe and the Middle East, this timely and inspiring collection of musical ethnographies provides a rich oral history of contemporary Palestinian musicianship and encompasses a broad range of experiences of the ghurba, or state of exile.
