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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armbrust, Walter, Author.

Contributor:

Armbrust, Walter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Middle East.

Mass media.

Popular culture--Middle East.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92309-X

1-59734-737-X

OCLC:

49569847