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Popular culture in the Middle East and North Africa : a postcolonial outlook / edited by Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 46Publication details: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013 .Description: xi, 281 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780415509725 :
  • 0415509726 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS57 .P66 2013
Contents:
Introduction: popular culture: a site of resistance / Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman -- Popular culture and the aesthetics of political resistance. Palestinian rap: against the struggle paradigm / Ted Swedenburg -- Music Sans Frontieres?: documentaries on hip hop in the Holy Land and DIY democracy / Caroline Rooney -- Rai: North Africa's music of the working class / John A. Shoup -- Gender politics, the popular, social resistance. Masculinity and fatherhood within a Lebanese Muslim community: Assad Fouladkar's When Maryam spoke out / Dalia Said Mostafa -- Photo-tattoo as postmodern veil: photography and the inscription of subjectivity on the female body / Walid El Khachab -- Dancing without my body: cultural integration in the Middle East / Nadra Majeed Assaf -- Tradition and the popular: new forms and trends. Satellite piety: contemporary TV Islamic programs in Egypt / Omaima Abou-Bakr -- B??ra: the veiled protagonist of a comic serial / Iren Ozgur -- The Yacoubian building and its sisters: reflections on readership and written culture in modern Egypt / Richard Jacquemond -- Tradition and modernity: the globalization of Sufi music in Egypt / Michael Frishkopf -- Cultural hegemony: popular representations of the Middle East in the US. American Orientalism after Said / John Carlos Rowe -- Barbaric space: portrayal of Arab lands in Hollywood films / Hania A. M. Nashef -- Alternating images: simulacra of ideology in Egyptian advertisements / Maha El Said -- Popular culture and revolution: the voice of dissent. The role of new media in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011: visuality as an agent of change / Randa Aboubakr -- The aesthetics of revolution: popular creativity and the Egyptian Spring / Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection DS 57 .P66 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5142810

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: popular culture: a site of resistance / Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman -- Popular culture and the aesthetics of political resistance. Palestinian rap: against the struggle paradigm / Ted Swedenburg -- Music Sans Frontieres?: documentaries on hip hop in the Holy Land and DIY democracy / Caroline Rooney -- Rai: North Africa's music of the working class / John A. Shoup -- Gender politics, the popular, social resistance. Masculinity and fatherhood within a Lebanese Muslim community: Assad Fouladkar's When Maryam spoke out / Dalia Said Mostafa -- Photo-tattoo as postmodern veil: photography and the inscription of subjectivity on the female body / Walid El Khachab -- Dancing without my body: cultural integration in the Middle East / Nadra Majeed Assaf -- Tradition and the popular: new forms and trends. Satellite piety: contemporary TV Islamic programs in Egypt / Omaima Abou-Bakr -- B??ra: the veiled protagonist of a comic serial / Iren Ozgur -- The Yacoubian building and its sisters: reflections on readership and written culture in modern Egypt / Richard Jacquemond -- Tradition and modernity: the globalization of Sufi music in Egypt / Michael Frishkopf -- Cultural hegemony: popular representations of the Middle East in the US. American Orientalism after Said / John Carlos Rowe -- Barbaric space: portrayal of Arab lands in Hollywood films / Hania A. M. Nashef -- Alternating images: simulacra of ideology in Egyptian advertisements / Maha El Said -- Popular culture and revolution: the voice of dissent. The role of new media in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011: visuality as an agent of change / Randa Aboubakr -- The aesthetics of revolution: popular creativity and the Egyptian Spring / Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman.

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