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Islam and popular culture /

Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the rab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960- (Editor ), LeVine, Mark, 1966- (Editor ), Stokes, Martin (Editor )
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Islam and popular culture / Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, and Martin Stokes
  • Part I. Popular culture : aesthetics, sound, and theatrical performance in the Muslim world. Listening acts, secular and sacred : sound knowledge among Sufi Muslims in secular France / Deborah Kapchan ; Islamic popular music aesthetics in Turkey / Martin Stokes ; Theater of immediacy : performance activism and art in the Arab uprisings / Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds
  • Part. II. Artistic protest and the Arab uprisings. "Islam is there to make people free" : Islamist musical narratives of freedom and democracy in the Moroccan Spring / Nina ter Laan ; Visual culture and the Amazigh renaissance in North Africa and its diaspora / Cynthia Becker ; Can poetry change the world? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011 / Samuli Schielke
  • Part III. Islam : religious discourses and pious ethics. The Sunni discourse on music / Jonas Otterbeck ; Shi'a discourses on performing arts : maslaha and cultural politics in Lebanon / Joseph Alagha ; Islam at the art school : religious young artists in Egypt / Jessica Winegar ; Writing history through the prism of art : the career of a pious cultural producer in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk
  • Part IV. Cultural politics and body politics. Ambivalent Islam : religion in Syrian television drama / Christa Salamandra ; Discourses of religiosity in post-1997 Iranian popular music / Laudan Nooshin ; Sacred or dissident: Islam, embodiment, and subjectivity on post-revolutionary Iranian theatrical stage / Ida Meftahi ; Public pleasures : negotiating gender and morality through Syrian popular dance / Shayna Silverstein
  • Part V: Global flows of popular culture in the Muslim world. Performing Islam around the Indian Ocean basin : musical ritual and recreation in Indonesia and the Sultanate of Oman / Anne K. Rasmussen ; Muslims, music, and tolerance in Egypt and Ghana : a comparative perspective on difference / Michael Frishkopf ; Music festivals in Pakistan and England / Thomas Hodgson ; Fleas in the sheepskin : glocalization and cosmopolitanism in Moroccan Hip-hop / Kendra Salois.