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

Title
Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater : artistic developments in the Muslim world / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk.
Publication
Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960-
Description
vi, 291 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.
Call Number
JFE 12-1354
ISBN
  • 9780292726819 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0292726813 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780292735521 (e-book)
  • 0292735529 (e-book)
LCCN
2011021616
OCLC
YBP 2011021616
Title
Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater : artistic developments in the Muslim world / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk.
Imprint
Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960-
Research Call Number
JFE 12-1354
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