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Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook de Walid El Hamamsy

Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Editat de Walid El Hamamsy, Mounira Soliman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2014
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and　cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance,　photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and political moment, analyzing the emergence of a popular expression in the　Middle East and North Africa region in recent years, and drawing conclusions pertaining to the direction of popular culture　within a geopolitical context. The importance of this book lies in presenting a fresh perspective on popular culture, combining media that are not often combined and offering a topical examination of recent popular production, aiming to counter stereotypical representations of Islamophobia and otherness by bringing together the perspectives of scholars from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines. The collection shows that popular culture can effect changes and　alter perceptions and stereotypes, constituting an area where people of different ethnicities, genders, and orientations can find common grounds for expression and connection.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138779334
ISBN-10: 1138779334
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 10 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables, 9 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Part 1: Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of Political Resistance  1. Palestinian Rap: Against the Struggle Paradigm Ted Swedenburg  2. Music Sans Frontières? Documentaries on Hip Hop in the Holy Land and DIY Democracy Caroline Rooney  3. Rai: North Africa’s Music of the Working Class John A. Shoup  Part 2: Gender Politics, the Popular, Social Resistance  4. Masculinity and Fatherhood within a Lebanese Muslim Community: Assad Fouladkar’s When Maryam Spoke Out Dalia Said Mostafa  5. Photo-Tattoo as Postmodern Veil: Photography and the Inscription of Subjectivity on the Female Body Walid El Khachab  6. Dancing Without My Body: Cultural Integration in the Middle East Nadra Majeed Assaf  Part 3: Tradition and the Popular: New Forms and Trends  7. Satellite Piety: Contemporary TV Islamic Programs in Egypt Omaima Abou-Bakr  8. Büşra: The Veiled Protagonist of a Comic Serial Iren Ozgur  9. The Yacoubian Building and Its Sisters: Reflections on Readership and Written Culture in Modern Egypt Richard Jacquemond  10. Tradition and Modernity: The Globalization of Sufi Music in Egypt Michael Frishkopf  Part 4: Cultural Hegemony: Popular Representations of the Middle East in the US  11. American Orientalism after Said John Carlos Rowe  12. Barbaric Space: Portrayal of Arab Lands in Hollywood Films Hania A. M. Nashef  13. Alternating Images: Simulacra of Ideology in Egyptian Advertisements Maha El Said  Part 5: Popular Culture and Revolution: The Voice of Dissent  14. The Role of New Media in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011: Visuality as an Agent of Change Randa Aboubakr  15. The Aesthetics of Revolution: Popular Creativity and the Egyptian Spring Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman

Recenzii

"This volume presents a thoughtful, empirically rich and timely contribution to the fields of Middle East and cultural studies." --Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations
"The triumph and value of Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa comes from its ability to pull together remarkable contributions from an international range of scholars in fields that range from ethnomusicology to Turkish politics…This is a collection that resists the flattening and simplification of the cultural terrain of the Muslim World and will be an oft-cited volume that will find a place on bookshelves. This is a trailblazing effort that sets the standard for balancing diversity and depth of scope through its nuanced analysis of cultural phenomena integrated into their sociopolitical and historical landscape." --Yasmine Motawy, American University in Cairo, Interventions
'The breadth and depth of the 15 essays offer an unprecedented contribution to understandings of contemporary cultural production in the region that raises critical issues in and about the public sphere…’ – --Contemporary Islam
"This edited volume surveys a wide array of cultural forms throughout the Arab world, Turkey, and Iran, as well as the United States’ own popular culture that reflects and propagates various discourses about the Middle East… El Hamamsy and Soliman frame the volume as an effort to raise awareness of not only Middle Eastern and North African popular culture, but especially of its scholarly value, in the context of states (such as Egypt) in which intellectuals and producers of elite culture are tightly invested in supporting state hegemony under the aegis of promoting ‘good’ over ‘bad’ mass-mediated culture." --Daniel J. Gilman, DePauw University, Journal of Arabic Literature
"Broad in geographical and disciplinary scope, the volume places literary and film scholars, anthropologists, and ethnomusicologists, among others, in conversation about the production and position of popular culture in the Middle East within the contemporary moment…What makes these chapters so compelling is the way the authors present diverse artistic practices as resistance against both dominant mainstream culture and different kinds of social, political, and ideological injustices." -- Yasmine Ramadan, Wellesley College, Arab Studies Journal
"Most of the book's articles were written before the Arab uprisings. Still, the book is timely. As its editors indicate, it examines popular culture in the immediately preceding period. And since one of the most significant achievements of the revolutions was to breathe life into the artistic scenes of the region, the book, and particularly its last chapter "The Aesthetics of the Revolution" can be a beginning to understanding those scenes today. Written by Hamamsy and Soliman on forms of popular creativity directly related to the Egyptian revolution, the chapter takes a close look at the art that came out of Tahrir Square, such as slogans, songs and graffiti, as well as art used for mobilizzation, such as al-Fan Midan, the Bassem Youssef Show, and independent activist cinemas, such as Mosireen and Kazeboon. By understanding the popular culture, one can hear the voices of the people." - www.madamasr.com

Descriere

This book explores the current historical moment through works of popular culture produced in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa region, Turkey, and Iran. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and other issues in film, cartoons, talk shows, music, dance, blogs, graphic novels, fiction, fashion, and advertisements.