Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater : : Artistic Developments in the Muslim World /

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

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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 believ...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (301 p.)
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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

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