Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater artistic developments in the Muslim world /

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Nieuwkerk, Karin van,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10519732
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Artistic developments in the Muslim cultural sphere: ethics, aesthetics, and the performing arts / Karin van Nieuwkerk
  • The power of performance. Hardcore Muslims: Islamic themes in Turkish rap between diaspora and homeland / Thomas Solomon
  • Contesting Islamic concepts of morality: heavy metal in Istanbul / Pierre Hecker
  • Iranian popular music in Los Angeles: a transnational public beyond the Islamic state / Farzaneh Hemmasi
  • Part 2. Motivations. Ritual as strategic action: the social logic of musical silence in Canadian Islam / Michael Frishkopf
  • Pious entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic cultural sphere /Joseph Alagha
  • Of morals, missions, and the market: new religiosity and "art with a mission" in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk
  • Part 3. Staging the body and the world stage. Islamic modernity and the re-enchanting power of symbols in Islamic fantasy serials in Turkey / Ahu Yiζgit
  • From "evil-inciting" dance to chaste "rhythmic movements": a genealogy of modern Islamic dance-theatre in Iran / Zeinab stellar
  • Suficized musics of Syria at the intersection of heritage and the War on Terror; or "a Rumi with a view" / Jonathan H. Shannon
  • Afterword / Martin Stokes.