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This dissertation is an ethnomusicological study of the Palestinian dabke, a music and dance tradition that developed as an integral part of the Palestinian refugee experience. The focus is on Hanouneh, a dabke group in the majority Palestinian population of Amman, Jordan, where…

This dissertation examines the formation of the secular modern nation-state of Syria in relation to historical and contemporary perspectives on popular culture and the body. Through archival, discursive, and ethnographic analysis based on fieldwork conducted in Syria since 2004,…