Borderland Pop: Arab Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance

Flowing Beyond Sectarian Ethno-politics: Ethnography of Jewish and Arab Rap in Israel

“…In order to move beyond the power-relations approach, I point to cross references made by rappers themselves which subvert the rationalized logic of a dual society model (Horowitz & Lissak, 1977;Shafir, 1996;Urban, 2009). 2 This perspective undermines the way in which music (and music studies) in Israel have often supported the hegemonic distinction between Jews and Arabs as a race-like difference, overlooking the long history of ethnic and cultural proximity (Saada-Ophir, 2006). My perspective is also more in line with the established canon of hip-hop studies which consistently problematize the sense of blackness promoted by rappers by showing it to be a syncretic and fluid category.…”

Acts of Solidarity: Crossing and Reiterating Israeli–Palestinian Frontiers

“… Some authors use different expressions to denote the ‘internal frontier’ as a zone rather than a line, such as the term ‘borderland’ used in Saada‐Ophir's () work on Jewish–Arab cultural expressions at the Israeli periphery. …”