Mass mediations : new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond / / edited by Walter Armbrust

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.230956
• Soggetto topico: Mass media - Middle East; Popular culture - Middle East
• Altri autori: ArmbrustWalter
• Note generali: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Preface; Note of Transliteration; 1. Introduction; 2. Public Culture in Arab Detroit; 3. The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music; 4. Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International; 5. Playing It Both Ways; 6. Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah; 7. Nasser 56/Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community; 8. Consuming Damascus; 9. The Hairbrush and the Dagger; 10. "Beloved Istanbul"; 11. Badi'a Masabni, Artiste and Modernist; 12. American Ambassador in Technicolor and Cinemascope; 13. The Golden Age before the Golden Age; References; List of Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new dimensions of identity that affect economics, politics, aesthetics, and performance.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mass mediations
• ISBN: 0-520-92309-X; 1-59734-737-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455972303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II