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Shayna Silverstein
Northwestern University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (847) 491-8368
Performance Studies
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208
United States
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Ethnomusicology
Historiography
Pop Culture
Identity/Representation
Arab Studies
Ethnography
Dance
Gender/Women's Studies
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Folklore/Folklife
Geographic Areas of Interest
Syria
Specialties
Performance Studies
Popular Culture
Masculinity And Gender Studies
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2012 | Music | University of Chicago
BA | 2000 | History | Yale University
Abstracts
"New Movements, Old Forms: Contesting Youth and Belonging in Syrian Popular Culture" Tracing Syrian Folk Dance: A Critical Assessment of Ibn Dhurayl’s Anthology of Raqs al-Semah and Dabke