Geographies of the Body: Music, Violence and Manhood in Palestine.

In this article I examine the dialogic relationship between violence, performance and the attainment and enactment of masculinity among Palestinian male youths in Jordan and the West Bank. Focusing specifically on the poetics of masculinity embodied in and articulated through wedding celebrations, I explore the various ways in which repertories of indigenous wedding song and dance have been operationalised in the nationalist movement as a means of engendering acts of resistance and sacrifice to the nation. I argue that the engendering of resistance and violence as acts of manhood has been greatly facilitated by the performative transference of wedding songs and dances into politico-nationalist frames. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]