Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture
Ramallah ravers and Haifa hipsters: gender, class, and nation in Palestinian popular culture
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拉马拉狂欢者和海法潮人：巴勒斯坦流行文化中的性别、阶级和民族
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10.1080/13530194.2021.1885852
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发表时间：
2021
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0.9
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Withers P
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Withers P
巴勒斯坦流行音乐通常通过两个弗拉姆来研究：作为民俗身份或抵抗以色列占领。本文超越了这些理论束缚。基于在拉马拉和海法为期两年的定性实地考察，它探讨了DJ和派对常客如何通过流行文化谈判“日常”权力。它认为舞池创造了一个半公共的空间，年轻人在这里排练非传统的身份。服饰和舞蹈强调女性气质、男性气质和以快乐、喜悦和乐趣为中心的奇怪的主观性。受众空间是身份形成和协商的重要场所。然而，由于这种主观性是通过消费伪造的，青年需要钱（衣服，门票，时间）来参与。因此，消除性别和性行为守则依赖于基于阶级的等级制度。追踪舞池中的身份体现，既没有发现对霸权控制的异议，也没有发现对霸权控制的默许。相反，随着阶级结构的巩固，性别和性行为模式发生了变化（这体现了新的控制）。虽然学术界倾向于将音乐与巴勒斯坦的抵抗联系起来，但舞池中的性别表演产生了对权力，游戏和社会（重新）想象力的微妙见解。我认为，这强调了在中东和北非以及其他地方超越现在过度确定的抵抗/遵守二元对立的流行文化的迫切需要。
Palestinian popular music is usually researched through two fram eworks: as folkloric identity or resistance to Israeli occupation. This paper stretches beyond these theoretical straitjackets. Based on two-years of qualitative fieldwork in Ramallah and Haifa, it explores how DJs and partygoers negotiate ‘everyday’ power through popular culture. It argues that dancefloors create semi-public spaces where young adults rehearse unconventional identities. Dress and dance assert femininities, masculinities, and queer subjectivities centred on pleasure, joy, and fun. Audience spaces are important sites of identity formation and negotiation. However, since such subjectivities are forged through consumption, youth require money (for clothes, tickets, time) to participate. Undoing gender and sexuality codes therefore relies on class-based hierarchies. Tracing identity embodiments on dancefloors reveal neither dissent nor acquiescence to hegemonic controls. Rather, as class structures cement, gender and sexuality modes shift (which instantiates novel controls). While scholarship tends to link music to resistance in Palestine, gender performances on dancefloors yield nuanced insights into power, play, and social (re)imagination. This, I argue, underscores the pressing need to approach popular culture in MENA and elsewhere beyond the now overdetermined resistance/compliance binary.