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Professor
Ted Swedenburg
Dr. Swedenburg received
his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas in 1988.
His dissertation, a study of popular memories of the 1936-39 revolt in
Palestine, involved interviewing elderly peasants living in Palestinian
villages in the Galilee and the West Bank. He taught at the University
of Washington -Seattle between 1988 and 1991, and at the American University
in Cairo from 1992 to 1996. He joined the University of Arkansas in 1996.
Dr. Swedenburg's recent
research focuses on popular music. He is currently working on a book manuscript,
tentatively entitled SOUNDS FROM THE INTERZONE, that deals with "border"
musics of the Middle East as well as Middle Eastern-inflected musics of
the West. He has done research and presented papers on Franco-Algerian
rai music, "Islamic" African-American rap, and Mizrahi dance music in
Israel. His most recent fieldwork has been on the popular music of Nubians
in Egypt.
Dr. Swedenburg teaches
courses on the Middle East, race and ethnicity, gender, and public culture.
He is on the editorial committee of MIDDLE EAST REPORT, and is actively
involved with the King Fahd Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies in the Fulbright College
of Arts and Sciences.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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"Saida Sultan/Danna
International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation,
and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border." THE MUSICAL QUARTERLY
81(1):81-108.
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Edited (with
Smadar Lavie). DISPLACEMENT, DIASPORA, AND GEOGRAPHIES OF IDENTITY.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
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(with Smadar
Lavie). "Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Bridging Text
and Lived Experience in the Third Timespace." CULTURAL STUDIES 10(1):
154-179, 1996.
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MEMORIES OF REVOLT:
THE 1936-39 REBELLION AND THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL PAST. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
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"Prisoners of
Love: With Genet in the Palestinian Field." In Carolyn Nordstrom and
Antonius Robben, eds., FIELDWORK UNDER FIRE: CONTEMPORARY STUDIES
OF VIOLENCE AND CULTURE, pp. 24-40. Berkeley: University of California
Press. 1995.
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(with Joan Gross
and David McMurray) "Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap and Franco-Maghrebi
Identity." DIASPORA 3(1): 3- 39, 1994.
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"Homies in the
'Hood: Rap's Commodification of Insubordination." NEW FORMATIONS 18:
53-66, 1992.
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"Seeing Double:
Palestinian-American Histories of the Kufiya." MICHIGAN QUARTERLY
REVIEW 31(4): 557-577, 1992.
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"Popular Memory
and the Palestinian National Past." In Jay O'Brien and William Roseberry,
eds., GOLDEN AGES, DARK AGES: IMAGINING THE PAST IN HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY,
pp. 152-79. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
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(with David McMurray)
"Rai Tide Rising." MIDDLE EAST REPORT 21(2): 39-42, 1991.
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"The Palestinian
Peasant as National Signifier." ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 63(1): 18-30,
1990.
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"Occupational
Hazards: Palestine Ethnography." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 4(3): 265-72,
1989. Reprinted in George Marcus, ed., REREADING CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY,
Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.
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"The Role of
the Palestinian Peasantry in the Great Revolt (1936-39)." In Edmund
Burke III and Ira Lapidus, eds., ISLAM, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS,
pp. 169-203. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Reprinted
in Albert Hourani et al, eds., THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST: A READER, London:
I.B. Tauris and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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