Princeton - 9 days ago

The Musicology Colloquium presents a talk by David McDonald (ethnomusicology) from Indiana University- Bloomington.TicketingFree, UnticketedAbstractListening to the Nakba: Palestine and the Crisis of ResponseFor Palestinians the Nakba, or catastrophe, is a profound concept that describes the events of 1948, when the majority of the world s Palestinians were forced into exile, as well as ongoing experiences of settler-colonial dispossession and genocide. As both historical event and contemporary discourse, the Nakba not only connects Palestinians across time and space, it captures the underlying logic that legitimizes myriad forms of violence, death, and political repression currently facing Palestinians (and their allies) around the world. Drawing from recent literature in indigenous sound studies, in this talk I argue that the Nakba offers an essential point of contact for listening to Palestinian experience and for refusing colonial auditory regimes. I propose that the current Palestinian crisis reverberates across sensory fields, and that by critically attending to the ways in which Palestinians are heard, artists, activists, and academics are better prepared to respond to challenges of the contemporary world.

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