| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
vi, 291 p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 Yigit -- 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Islamic countries.
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Arts -- Islamic countries.
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Islam and art.
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Islamic civilization -- Western influences.
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Muslims -- Non-Muslim countries -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780292726819 |
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9780292735521 (electronic bk.) |
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