Islam and Popular Culture

Herausgeber: Nieuwkerk, Karin van; Stokes, Martin; Levine, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

With well-structured chapters by leading scholars who explain key developments and concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture is the first comprehensive overview of this important subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781477309049
• ISBN-10: 1477309047
• Artikelnr.: 43896296

Autorenporträt

KARIN VAN NIEUWKERK is an anthropologist and professor of contemporary Islam in Europe and the Middle East at the Radboud University Nijmegen. MARK LEVINE is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden. MARTIN STOKES is King Edward Professor of Music at King’s College, London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Islam and Popular Culture (Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine,
and Martin Stokes)
2. Part I. Popular Culture: Aesthetics, Sound, and Theatrical Performance in
the Muslim World
* Chapter 1. Listening Acts, Secular and Sacred: Sound Knowledge among
Sufi Muslims in Secular France (Deborah Kapchan)
* Chapter 2. Islamic Popular Music Aesthetics in Turkey (Martin Stokes)
* Chapter 3. Theater of Immediacy: Performance Activism and Art in the
Arab Uprisings (Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds )
3. Part II. Artistic Protest and the Arab Uprisings
* Chapter 4. “Islam Is There to Make People Free”: Islamist Musical
Narratives of Freedom and Democracy in the Moroccan Spring (Nina ter
Laan)
* Chapter 5. Visual Culture and the Amazigh Renaissance in North Africa
and Its Diaspora (Cynthia Becker)
* Chapter 6. Can Poetry Change the World? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt
in 2011 (Samuli Schielke)
4. Part III. Islam: Religious Discourses and Pious Ethics
* Chapter 7. The Sunni Discourse on Music (Jonas Otterbeck)
* Chapter 8. Shica Discourses on Performing Arts: Maslaha and Cultural
Politics in Lebanon (Joseph Alagha)
* Chapter 9. Islam at the Art School: Religious Young Artists in Egypt
(Jessica Winegar )
* Chapter 10. Writing History through the Prism of Art: The Career of a
Pious Cultural Producer in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk)
5. Part IV. Cultural Politics and Body Politics
* Chapter 11. Ambivalent Islam: Religion in Syrian Television Drama
(Christa Salamandra)
* Chapter 12. Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1997 Iranian Popular
Music (Laudan Nooshin)
* Chapter 13. Sacred or Dissident: Islam, Embodiment, and Subjectivity
on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatrical Stage (Ida Meftahi)
* Chapter 14. Public Pleasures: Negotiating Gender and Morality through
Syrian Popular Dance (Shayna Silverstein)
6. Part V: Global Flows of Popular Culture in the Muslim World
* Chapter 15. Performing Islam around the Indian Ocean Basin: Musical
Ritual and Recreation in Indonesia and the Sultanate of Oman (Anne K.
Rasmussen)
* Chapter 16. Muslims, Music, and Tolerance in Egypt and Ghana: A
Comparative Perspective on Difference (Michael Frishkopf)
* Chapter 17. Music Festivals in Pakistan and England (Thomas Hodgson)
* Chapter 18. Fleas in the Sheepskin: Glocalization and Cosmopolitanism
in Moroccan Hip-Hop (Kendra Salois)
7. Notes on Contributors
8. Index