Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

A Postcolonial Outlook
Herausgeber: El Hamamsy, Walid; Soliman, Mounira

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the current historical moment through works of popular culture produced in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa region, Turkey, and Iran. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and other issues in film, cartoons, talk shows, music, dance, blogs, graphic novels, fiction, fashion, and advertisements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415509725
• ISBN-10: 0415509726
• Artikelnr.: 35457064

Autorenporträt

Walid El Hamamsy　is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Cairo University, Egypt. Mounira Soliman　is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cairo University, Egypt.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of Political Resistance 1.
Palestinian Rap: Against the Struggle Paradigm Ted Swedenburg 2. Music Sans
Frontières? Documentaries on Hip Hop in the Holy Land and DIY Democracy
Caroline Rooney 3. Rai: North Africa's Music of the Working Class John A.
Shoup Part 2: Gender Politics, the Popular, Social Resistance 4.
Masculinity and Fatherhood within a Lebanese Muslim Community: Assad
Fouladkar's When Maryam Spoke Out Dalia Said Mostafa 5. Photo-Tattoo as
Postmodern Veil: Photography and the Inscription of Subjectivity on the
Female Body Walid El Khachab 6. Dancing Without My Body: Cultural
Integration in the Middle East Nadra Majeed Assaf Part 3: Tradition and the
Popular: New Forms and Trends 7. Satellite Piety: Contemporary TV Islamic
Programs in Egypt Omaima Abou-Bakr 8. Bü¿ra: The Veiled Protagonist of a
Comic Serial Iren Ozgur 9. The Yacoubian Building and Its Sisters:
Reflections on Readership and Written Culture in Modern Egypt Richard
Jacquemond 10. Tradition and Modernity: The Globalization of Sufi Music in
Egypt Michael Frishkopf Part 4: Cultural Hegemony: Popular Representations
of the Middle East in the US 11. American Orientalism after Said John
Carlos Rowe 12. Barbaric Space: Portrayal of Arab Lands in Hollywood Films
Hania A. M. Nashef 13. Alternating Images: Simulacra of Ideology in
Egyptian Advertisements Maha El Said Part 5: Popular Culture and
Revolution: The Voice of Dissent 14. The Role of New Media in the Egyptian
Revolution of 2011: Visuality as an Agent of Change Randa Aboubakr 15. The
Aesthetics of Revolution: Popular Creativity and the Egyptian Spring Walid
El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman