BETWEEN THE LOCAL , THE GLOBAL , AND THE AID ECONOMY IN PALESTINE : THE EDWARD SAID NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ( ESNCM ) AT THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT FOR LIFE AND PEACE IN BETHLEHEM
NILI BELKIND Hebrew University
ARTS & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS • 5.2 • WINTER 2020-21
Nili Belkind is an ethnomusicologist whose specialty areas include the Middle East and the Caribbean . She has published on a wide range of topics , including music and social movements , diasporic imaginations , cultural policy and diplomacy , borders , the urban space and ethnonational conflict . Her book Music in Conflict : Palestine , Israel and the Politics of Aesthetic Production ( SOAS ’ Studies in Music , Routledge 2021 ) is an ethnographic study of the complex relations of musical production to political life in the context of the conflict . The book examines the politics of sound to show how music-making reflects and forms identities , and in the process , shapes communities , in a context of ongoing political and structural violence . Currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Nili received her PhD from Columbia University . Prior to pursuing her PhD , Nili spent many years working in the music industry as an album producer , record-label manager and A & R specializing in world music . In this period , she worked most extensively with artists from the Spanish and French Caribbean .
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