Moral Resonance of Arab Media - Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen

Informationen zum Autor Flagg Miller is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Zusammenfassung This book studies contemporary Arab political poetry, providing insights into how modern Arab media forms are shaped by language and culture. By examining lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, it shows how tribalism is a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history.

Product details

• Authors: Flagg Miller, Miller Flagg
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2007
• EAN: 9780932885326
• ISBN: 978-0-932885-32-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 210 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs; Harvard Middle Eastern Monogra; Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Middle East, Political activism, Political activism / Political engagement