880-01 "Dar el Kutub no. 4108/09"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Music and media in the Arab world and music and media in the Arab world as music and media in the Arab world : a metadiscourse / Michael Frishkopf -- A history of music and singing on Egyptian radio and television / Zein Nassar -- Arabic music videos and their implications for Arab music and media / Moataz Abdel Aziz -- Arab music and changes in the Arab media / Mounir Al Wassimi -- Music and television in Lebanon / Elisabeth Cestor -- Mass media and music in the Arab Persian Gulf / Laith Ulaby -- Critique : Music of the streets : the story of a television program / Yasser Abdel-Latif -- Analysis : What's not on Egyptian television and radio! : locating the 'popular' in Egyptian Sha'bi / James R. Grippo -- Critique : Ruby and the checkered heart / Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri -- Analysis : The controversy over satellite music television in contemporary Egypt / Patricia Kubala -- Critique : Caliphs and clips / Tamim Al-Barghouti -- Analysis : What would Sayyid Qutb say? : some reflections on video clips / Walter Armbrust -- Critique : Images of women in advertisements and video clips : a case study of Sherif Sabri / Hany Darwish -- Analysis : Arab video music : imagined territories and the liberation of desire (or sex lies in video (clip)) / Walid El Khachab -- Critique : The biographies of starlets today : revolutions in sound and images / Wael Abdel Fattah -- Analysis : Real-politics : televised talent competitions and democracy promotion in the Middle East / Katherine Meizel.

Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media dissemination - from phonograph cylinders to MP3s - each subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly transformed as well. Simultaneously, mass mediated music has become a powerful social force. While parallel processes have unfolded worldwide, their implications in the Arabic-speaking world have thus far received little scholarly attention. This provocative volume features sixteen new essays examining these issues, especially televised music and the controversial new genre of the music video. Perceptive voices - both emerging and established - represent a wide variety of academic disciplines. Incisive essays by Egyptian critics display the textures of public Arabic discourse to an English readership. Authors address the key issues of contemporary Arab society - gender and sexuality, Islam, class, economy, power, and nation - as refracted through the culture of mediated music. Interconnected by a web of recurrent concepts, this collection transcends music to become an important resource for the study of contemporary Arab society and culture. Contributors: Wael Abdel Fattah, Yasser Abdel-Latif, Moataz Abdel Aziz, Tamim Al-Barghouti, Mounir Al Wassimi, Walter Armbrust, Elisabeth Cestor, Hani Darwish, Walid El Khachab, Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri, James Grippo, Patricia Kubala, Katherine Meizel, Zein Nassar, Ibrahim Saleh, and Laith Ulaby. --- Product Description.

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