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

Imprint Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  302.230956 M381m    ---  Available
Description xi, 378 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-353) and index.
Contents Anxieties of scale / Walter Armbrust -- Public culture in Arab Detroit : creating Arab/American identities in a transnational domain / Andrew Shryock -- 6/8 beat goes on : Persian popular music from Bazm-e Qujariyyeh to Beverly Hills garden parties / Anthony Shay -- Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International : transgender pop and polysemiotics of sex, nation, and ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian border / Ted Swedenburg -- Playing it both ways : local Egyptian performers between regional identity and international markets / Katherine E. Zirbel -- Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah : Moroccan music and Euro-American imagination / Philip Schuyler -- Nasser 56/Cairo 96 : reimaging Egypt's lost community / Joel Gordon -- Consuming Damascus : public culture and the construction of social identity / Christa Salamandra -- Hairbrush and the dagger : mediating modernity in Lahore / Richard McGill Murphy -- "Beloved Istanbul" : realism and the transnational imaginary in Turkish popular culture / Martin Stokes -- Badi'a Masabni, artiste and modernist : the Egyptian print media's carnival of national identity / Roberta L. Dougherty -- American ambassador in technicolor and cinemascope : Hollywood and revolution on the Nile / Robert Vitalis -- Golden age before the golden age : commercial Egyptian cinema before the 1960s / Walter Armbrust.
Subject Mass media -- Middle East.
Popular culture -- Middle East.
Added Author Armbrust, Walter.
ISBN 0520219260 (pbk.)
0520219252 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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