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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/fraught-balance-the-embodied-politi
 cs-of-dabke-dance-music-in-syria-music-culture/
SUMMARY:Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syri
 a (Music / Culture)
DESCRIPTION:A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reve
 als the many contradictions of Syrian identity in the 21st century\n\nDabk
 e\, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions\, is at the center 
 of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawi
 ng on almost two decades of ethnographic\, archival\, and digital research
 \, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught 
 dynamics of gender\, class\, ethnicity\, and nationhood in an authoritaria
 n state. The book situates dabke politically\, economically\, and historic
 ally in a broader account of expressive culture in Syria's recent (and ong
 oing) turmoil. Silverstein shows how people imagine the Syrian nation thro
 ugh dabke\, how the state has coopted it\, how performances of masculinity
  reveal--and play with--the tensions and complexities of the broader socia
 l imaginary\, how forces opposed to the state have used it resistively\, a
 nd how migrants and refugees have reimagined it in their new homes in Euro
 pe and the United States. She offers deeply thoughtful reflections on the 
 ethnographer's ethical and political dilemmas on fieldwork in an authorita
 rian state. Silverstein's study ultimately questions the limits of authori
 tarian power\, considering the pleasure and play intrinsic to dabke circle
 s as evidence for how performance cultures sustain social life and solidif
 y group bonds while reproducing the societal divides endemic to Syrian aut
 horitarianism.
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