Brehony, Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance

Hanna Salmon is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at Austin. In her research, she studies Palestinian oral storytelling, arguing that storytellers create shared affective atmospheres through their performances. By studying the musical and vocal practices that storytellers employ in their tellings, she analyzes how those affective atmospheres come into being as well as their implications for communal belonging and cultural resistance.