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

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...

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Contributors: Nieuwkerk, Karin van 1960- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Austin, Tex. University of Texas Press 2011
In:Year: 2011
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Western world / Muslim / Pop culture
B Islamic countries / Islam / Popular culture
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Muslims (Non-Islamic countries) Social conditions 21st century
B Arts (Islamic countries)
B Islamic civilization Western influences
B Popular Culture (Islamic countries)
B Islam and art
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Summary: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 Yiğit -- 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
Item Description:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references and index
©2011
ISBN:0292747683