Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater : : Artistic Developments in the Muslim World / / ed. by Karin van Nieuwkerk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alagha, Joseph,; Frishkopf, Michael,; Hecker, Pierre,; Hemmasi, Farzaneh,; Nieuwkerk, Karin van,; Shannon, Jonathan H.,; Solomon, Thomas,; Stellar, Zeinab,; Stokes, Martin,; Yiğit, Ahu,
• HerausgeberIn: van Nieuwkerk, Karin,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (301 p.)

From "green" pop and "clean" cinema to halal songs, Islamic soaps, Muslim rap, Islamist fantasy serials, and Suficized music, the performing arts have become popular and potent avenues for Islamic piety movements, politically engaged Islamists, Islamic states, and moderate believers to propagate their religio-ethical beliefs. Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater is the first book that explores this vital intersection between artistic production and Islamic discourse in the Muslim world. The contributors to this volume investigate the historical and structural conditions that impede or facilitate the emergence of a "post-Islamist" cultural sphere. They discuss the development of religious sensibilities among audiences, which increasingly include the well-to-do and the educated young, as well as the emergence of a local and global religious market. At the heart of these essays is an examination of the intersection between cultural politics, performing art, and religion, addressing such questions as where, how, and why pop culture and performing arts have been turned into a religious mission, and whether it is possible to develop a new Islamic aesthetic that is balanced with religious sensibilities. As we read about young Muslims and their quest for a "cool Islam" in music, their struggle to quell their stigmatized status, or the collision of morals and the marketplace in the arts, a vivid, varied new perspective on Muslim culture emerges.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Performing Arts -- Part One. The Power of Performance -- Chapter 1. Hardcore Muslims: Islamic Themes in Turkish Rap between Diaspora and Homeland -- Chapter 2. Contesting Islamic Concepts of Morality: Heavy Metal in Istanbul -- Chapter 3. Iranian Popular Music in Los Angeles: A Transnational Public beyond the Islamic State -- Part Two. Motivations -- Chapter 4. Ritual as Strategic Action: The Social Logic of Musical Silence in Canadian Islam -- Chapter 5. Pious Entertainment: Hizbullah’s Islamic Cultural Sphere -- Chapter 6. Of Morals, Missions, and the Market: New Religiosity and “Art with a Mission” in Egypt -- Part Three. Staging the Body and the World Stage -- Chapter 7. Islamic Modernity and the Re-enchanting Power of Symbols in Islamic Fantasy Serials in Turkey -- Chapter 8. From “Evil-Inciting” Dance to Chaste “Rhythmic Movements”: A Genealogy of Modern Islamic Dance-Theatre in Iran -- Chapter 9. Suficized Musics of Syria at the Intersection of Heritage and the War on Terror; Or “A Rumi with a View” -- Afterword -- Notes on Contributors -- Index