ISBN:
9780415509725
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (284 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Parallel Title:
Print version Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook
DDC:
306.0956
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and?cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance,?photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and political moment, analy
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Popular Culture-A Site of Resistance: Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman; Part I: 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Gender Politics, the Popular, Social Resistance4. Masculinity and Fatherhoodwithin 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 III: Tradition and the Popular: New Forms and Trends; 7. Satellite Piety: Contemporary TV Islamic Programs in Egypt: Omaima Abou-Bakr; 8. Büşra:The Veiled Protagonist of a Comic Serial: Iren Ozgur
Description / Table of Contents:
9. The Yacoubian Building and Its Sisters: Reflections on Readership and Written Culture in Modern Egypt: Richard Jacquemond10. Tradition and Modernity: The Globalization of Sufi Music in Egypt: Michael Frishkopf; Part IV: Cultural Hegemony: Popular Representations of the Middle East and 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 V: Popular Cultureand Revolution The Voice of Dissent
Description / Table of Contents:
14. The Role of New Media in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011:Visuality as an Agent of Change: Randa Aboubakr15. The Aesthetics of Revolution: Popular Creativity and the Egyptian Spring: Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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