ISBN:
0520219252
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Mass Mediations
DDC:
302.230956
Keywords:
Mass media Middle East
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Popular culture Middle East
;
Mass media
;
Middle East
;
Popular culture
;
Middle East
;
Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift 1995
;
Konferenzschrift 1995
;
Mittlerer Osten
;
Massenkultur
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Naher Osten
;
Massenmedien
;
Volkskultur
Abstract:
Mass Mediations examines the role of mass-mediated popular culture in defining the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. Mass media are now as ubiquitous in Karachi and Cairo as they are in Dearborn and Los Angeles. Few question their importance in the contemporary process of constructing the boundaries of social identity. Although mass media potentially raise as many questions as sociological ingenuity can devise, in this volume we address primarily the larger, more inclusive issues that lend themselves to questions of scale: modernity, nationalism, and globalization.
Abstract:
Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new dimensions of identity that affect economics, politics, aesthetics, and performance
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Preface; Note of Transliteration; 1. Introduction; 2. Public Culture in Arab Detroit; 3. The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music; 4. Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International; 5. Playing It Both Ways; 6. Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah; 7. Nasser 56/Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community; 8. Consuming Damascus; 9. The Hairbrush and the Dagger; 10. "Beloved Istanbul"; 11. Badi'a Masabni, Artiste and Modernist; 12. American Ambassador in Technicolor and Cinemascope; 13. The Golden Age before the Golden Age; References; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliography and index
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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