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Zusatztext Muslims Making British Media brilliantly chronicles how Muslim cultural producers have been making their voices heard in the 21st century. Carl Morris is a sure-footed guide to the creative successes and formidable dilemmas that British Muslims encounter as they produce TV, film, theatre, comedy and music. Zusammenfassung Drawing on original fieldwork, Carl Morris examines Muslim cultural production in Britain, with a focus on the performance-based entertainment industries: music, comedy, film, television and theatre. It is a seminal study that charts the growing agency and involvement of British Muslims in cultural production over the last two decades. Morris sets this discussion within the context of wider religious, social and cultural change, with important insights concerning the sociological profile, religious lives and public visibility of Muslims in contemporary Britain. Morris draws on theoretical considerations concerning the mediatization of religion and cosmopolitanization in a globally-connected world. He argues that a new generation of media-savvy and internationalist Muslim cultural producers in Britain are constructing counter narratives in the public sphere and are reshaping everyday religious lives within their own communities. This is having a profound impact upon areas that range from Islamic authority and religious practice, to political and public debate, and understandings of Muslim identity and belonging. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Muslims, Media and Popular Culture Part I 1. A Cultural History of Muslims in Britain: From Colonial Newsreels to Post-9/11 Broadcasting2. Sound and Vision: From Rappers and Rockers to the Muslim Netflix3. Understanding Muslim Popular Culture: Rethinking Islam in the Media Age Part II 4. Voices of Authority: Knowledge, Nurture and Sectarianism5. Everyday Islam: Consumer Culture, Performance and Spirituality6. Speaking Out: Representation, Discrimination and Identity Politics7. Communal Culture: Diaspora, Myth and Imagined CommunitiesConclusionBibliographyIndex...
