Islam and popular culture / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine, and Martin Stokes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960- editor.

LeVine, Mark, 1966- editor.

Stokes, Martin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and culture--Islamic countries--20th century.

Islam and culture.

Islam and culture--Islamic countries--21st century.

Islam in mass media.

Popular culture--Islamic countries.

Popular culture.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

vii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Summary:

Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the "Arab Spring," while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a "westernizing" or "secularizing" force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be Muslim. With well-structured chapters that explain key concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture addresses new trends and developments that merge popular arts and Islam. Its eighteen case studies by eminent scholars cover a wide range of topics, such as lifestyle, dress, revolutionary street theater, graffiti, popular music, poetry, television drama, visual culture, and dance throughout the Muslim world from Indonesia and Africa to the Middle East and Europe. The first comprehensive overview of this important subject, Islam and Popular Culture offers essential new ways of understanding the diverse religious discourses and pious ethics expressed in popular art productions, the cultural politics of states and movements, and the global flows of popular culture in the Muslim world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Popular Culture: Aesthetics, Sound, and Theatrical Performance in the Muslim World 21

Chapter 1 Listening Acts, Secular and Sacred: Sound Knowledge among Sufi Muslims in Secular France / Deborah Kapchan Kapchan, Deborah 23

Chapter 2 Islamic Popular Music Aesthetics in Turkey / Martin Stokes Stokes, Martin 41

Chapter 3 Theater of Immediacy: Performance Activism and Art in the Arab Uprisings / Mark LeVine LeVine, Mark, Bryan Reynolds Reynolds, Bryan 58

Part II Artistic Protest and the Arab Uprisings 79

Chapter 4 "Islam Is There to Make People Free": Islamist Musical Narratives of Freedom and Democracy in the Moroccan Spring / Nina ter Laan Laan, Nina ter 81

Chapter 5 Visual Culture and the Amazigh Renaissance in North Africa and Its Diaspora / Cynthia Becker Becker, Cynthia 100

Chapter 6 Can Poetry Change the World? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011 / Samuli Schielke Schielke, Samuli 122

Part III Islam: Religious Discourses and Pious Ethics 149

Chapter 7 The Sunni Discourse on Music / Jonas Otterbeck Otterbeck, Jonas 151

Chapter 8 Shi'a Discourses on Performing Arts: Maslaha and Cultural Politics in Lebanon / Joseph Alagha Alagha, Joseph 169

Chapter 9 Islam at the Art School: Religious Young Artists in Egypt / Jessica Winegar Winegar, Jessica 187

Chapter 10 Writing History through the Prism of Art: The Career of a Pious Cultural Producer in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk Nieuwkerk, Karin van 204

Part IV Cultural Politics and Body Politics 221

Chapter 11 Ambivalent Islam: Religion in Syrian Television Drama / Christa Salamandra Salamandra, Christa 224

Chapter 12 Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1997 Iranian Popular Music / Laudan Nooshin Nooshin, Laudan 242

Chapter 13 Sacred or Dissident: Islam, Embodiment, and Subjectivity on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatrical Stage / Ida Meftahi Meftahi, Ida 258

Chapter 14 Public Pleasures: Negotiating Gender and Morality through Syrian Popular Dance / Shayna Silverstein Silverstein, Shayna 278

Part V Global Flows of Popular Culture in the Muslim World 297

Chapter 15 Performing Islam around the Indian Ocean Basin: Musical Ritual and Recreation in Indonesia and the Sultanate of Oman / Anne K. Rasmussen Rasmussen, Anne K. 300

Chapter 16 Muslims, Music, and Religious Tolerance in Egypt and Ghana: A Comparative Perspective on Difference / Michael Frishkopf Frishkopf, Michael 323

Chapter 17 Music Festivals in Pakistan and England / Thomas Hodgson Hodgson, Thomas 347

Chapter 18 Fleas in the Sheepskin: Glocalization and Cosmopolitanism in Moroccan Hip-Hop / Kendra Salois Salois, Kendra 364.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477308875

1477308873

9781477309049

1477309047

OCLC:

920944461