The moral resonance of Arab media : audiocassette poetry and culture in Yemen / Flagg Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Flagg.

Series:

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 38.

Harvard Middle Eastern monograph ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic poetry--Yemen (Republic)--History and criticism.

Arabic poetry.

Yemen (Republic).

Arabic poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Audiobooks--Yemen (Republic).

Audiobooks.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 525 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction

Folk-poetry cassettes : between community and conflict

"Metropolitan tribalism" in the bidʻ wa jiwāb qaṣīdah : a social history of media aesthetics

"Cars of all styles and colorful ways" : the emergence of the recording industry and its denizens of song

From pen to polyester and back

Signs and songs of the poet : moral character and the resonance of authorship

The significance of history's personalities : the legacy of the Abd al-Naser series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-493) and index.

ISBN:

9780932885326

0932885322

OCLC:

145942550