Ed Emery

The fiddle in Palestine: In search of a music

by Ed Emery

SUMMARY: The endemic warfare arising from Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands expresses itself also at the cultural level. The Western violin and the Arab fiddle (rebab) have, at various moments, featured as pivotal points in the battle to express, and also to repress, a Palestinian culture. This paper explores some of those moments.

CV: Ed Emery organises an itinerant free university under the rubric of the Universitas adversitatis.