Islam and Popular Culture / / ed. by Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, Martin Stokes.

• MitwirkendeR: Alagha, Joseph,; Becker, Cynthia,; Frishkopf, Michael,; Hodgson, Thomas,; Kapchan, Deborah,; Laan, Nina ter,; LeVine, Mark,; Meftahi, Ida,; Nieuwkerk, Karin van,; Nooshin, Laudan,; Otterbeck, Jonas,; Rasmussen, Anne K.,; Reynolds, Bryan,; Salamandra, Christa,; Salois, Kendra,; Schielke, Samuli,; Silverstein, Shayna,; Stokes, Martin,; Winegar, Jessica,
• HerausgeberIn: LeVine, Mark,; Stokes, Martin,; van Nieuwkerk, Karin,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the “Ara...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Islam and Popular Culture
• Part I. Popular Culture: Aesthetics, Sound, and Theatrical Performance in the Muslim World
• Chapter 1. Listening Acts, Secular and Sacred: Sound Knowledge among Sufi Muslims in Secular France
• Chapter 2. Islamic Popular Music Aesthetics in Turkey
• Chapter 3. Theater of Immediacy: Performance Activism and Art in the Arab Uprisings
• Part II. Artistic Protest and the Arab Uprisings
• Chapter 4. “Islam Is There to Make People Free”: Islamist Musical Narratives of Freedom and Democracy in the Moroccan Spring
• Chapter 5. Visual Culture and the Amazigh Renaissance in North Africa and Its Diaspora
• Chapter 6. Can Poetry Change the World? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011
• Part III. Islam: Religious Discourses and Pious Ethics
• Chapter 7. The Sunni Discourse on Music
• Chapter 8. Shiʿa Discourses on Performing Arts: Maslaha and Cultural Politics in Lebanon
• Chapter 9. Islam at the Art School: Religious Young Artists in Egypt
• Chapter 10. Writing History through the Prism of Art: The Career of a Pious Cultural Producer in Egypt
• Part IV. Cultural Politics and Body Politics
• Chapter 11. Ambivalent Islam: Religion in Syrian Television Drama
• Chapter 12. Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1997 Iranian Popular Music
• Chapter 13. Sacred or Dissident: Islam, Embodiment, and Subjectivity on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatrical Stage
• Chapter 14. Public Pleasures: Negotiating Gender and Morality through Syrian Popular Dance
• Part V. Global Flows of Popular Culture in the Muslim World
• Chapter 15. Performing Islam around the Indian Ocean Basin: Musical Ritual and Recreation in Indonesia and the Sultanate of Oman
• Chapter 16. Muslims, Music, and Religious Tolerance in Egypt and Ghana: A Comparative Perspective on Difference
• Chapter 17. Music Festivals in Pakistan and England
• Chapter 18. Fleas in the Sheepskin: Glocalization and Cosmopolitanism in Moroccan Hip-Hop
• Notes on Contributors
• Index