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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457674203321

Titolo

Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater [[electronic resource] ] : artistic developments in the Muslim world / / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2011

ISBN

0-292-73552-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NieuwkerkKarin van <1960->

Disciplina

700.88/297

Soggetti

Popular culture - Islamic countries

Arts - Islamic countries

Islam and art

Islamic civilization - Western influences

Muslims - Non-Muslim countries - Social conditions - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.