UID:
edoccha_9958120082102883
Format:
1 online resource (392 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-92309-X
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1-59734-737-X
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliography and index.
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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
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-21926-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-21925-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520923096
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