Islam and Popular Culture / / ed. by Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, Martin Stokes.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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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