TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burkhalter,Thomas
AU  - Dickinson,Kay
AU  - Harbert,Benjamin J.
TI  - The Arab avant-garde: music, politics, modernity 
T2  - Music/culture
SN  - 9780819573865 (pbk.) :
AV  - ML348 .A73 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Middletown, Conn.
PB  - Wesleyan University Press
KW  - Avant-garde (Music)
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Music
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Popular music
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Instruction and study.
N1  - Includes index; A note on transliteration : introduction : "Arab" + "Avant-garde" / Kay Dickinson -- Transforming space : the production of contemporary Syrian art music / Shayna Silverstein -- Balancing integration and disintegration : Amir Elsaffar and the contingent avant-garde / Kamran Rastegar -- Multisited avant-gardes or world music 2.0? Musicians from Beirut and beyond between local production and Euro-American reception / Thomas Burkhalter -- The "people's artist" and the beginnings of the twentieth-century Arab avant-garde / Saed Muhssin -- Challenging the status quo in war-torn Lebanon : Ziad Rabhani, the avant-garde heir to musical tradition / Sami W. Asmar -- A look at lightning : the life and compositions of Halim El-Dabh / Michael Khoury -- Sonic cosmopolitanisms : experimental improvised music and a Lebanese-American cultural exchange / Marina Peterson -- Activism and authenticity : Palestinian and related hip-hop in an international frame / Caroline Rooney -- Noise and its formless shadows : Egypt's extreme metal as avant-garde Nafas Dawsha / Benjamin J. Harbert
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