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Informationen zum Autor KARIN VAN NIEUWKERK is an anthropologist and professor of contemporary Islam in Europe and the Middle East at the Radboud University Nijmegen.MARK LEVINE is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Irvine, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.MARTIN STOKES is King Edward Professor of Music at King’s College, London. Klappentext With well-structured chapters by leading scholars who explain key developments and concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture is the first comprehensive overview of this important subject. Zusammenfassung With well-structured chapters by leading scholars who explain key developments and concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture is the first comprehensive overview of this important subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Islam and Popular Culture (Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, and Martin Stokes)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 (Deborah Kapchan)Chapter 2. Islamic Popular Music Aesthetics in Turkey (Martin Stokes)Chapter 3. Theater of Immediacy: Performance Activism and Art in the Arab Uprisings (Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds )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 (Nina ter Laan)Chapter 5. Visual Culture and the Amazigh Renaissance in North Africa and Its Diaspora (Cynthia Becker)Chapter 6. Can Poetry Change the World? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011 (Samuli Schielke)Part III. Islam: Religious Discourses and Pious Ethics Chapter 7. The Sunni Discourse on Music (Jonas Otterbeck)Chapter 8. Shica Discourses on Performing Arts: Maslaha and Cultural Politics in Lebanon (Joseph Alagha)Chapter 9. Islam at the Art School: Religious Young Artists in Egypt (Jessica Winegar )Chapter 10. Writing History through the Prism of Art: The Career of a Pious Cultural Producer in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk)Part IV. Cultural Politics and Body Politics Chapter 11. Ambivalent Islam: Religion in Syrian Television Drama (Christa Salamandra)Chapter 12. Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1997 Iranian Popular Music (Laudan Nooshin)Chapter 13. Sacred or Dissident: Islam, Embodiment, and Subjectivity on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatrical Stage (Ida Meftahi)Chapter 14. Public Pleasures: Negotiating Gender and Morality through Syrian Popular Dance (Shayna Silverstein)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 (Anne K. Rasmussen)Chapter 16. Muslims, Music, and Tolerance in Egypt and Ghana: A Comparative Perspective on Difference (Michael Frishkopf)Chapter 17. Music Festivals in Pakistan and England (Thomas Hodgson)Chapter 18. Fleas in the Sheepskin: Glocalization and Cosmopolitanism in Moroccan Hip-Hop (Kendra Salois)Notes on ContributorsIndex...
