Approaches to Arabic popular culture. Peter Konerding; Felix Wiedemann; Lale Behzadi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Konerding, Peter.

Wiedemann, Felix.

Behzadi, Lale.

Series:

Bamberger Orientstudien ; 14.

Bamberger Orientstudien 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Arab countries.

Arab countries--Social life and customs--21st century.

Physical Description:

230 p.

Place of Publication:

Bamberg : University of Bamberg Press 2021.

Summary:

Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ?popular? as opposed to an intellectual ?high? culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the elite and a stance against those who have ?something to loose? within paralyzed and conservative communities. Albeit not denying the subversive political potential associated with these practices, this volume intends to take a more nuanced and broader perspective. Arabic popular culture might engage with emancipatory claims, but it might as easily follow the capitalist rulebook of global marketing. It might fight against oppressive authorities, yet it can equally become their symbol.0Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture therefore closely looks at the aesthetic implications of a topic ranging from Lebanese hip hop over Algerian pop novels to jihadi chants in the ?Islamic State? as well as from Egyptian mahraganat music over sarcastic stories about hash dens and time travel in downtown Cairo to Saudi-Arabian YouTube-influencers. Thus, the theoretical scope widens and the reader is taken on a delightful journey to the unsettling pleasures of contemporary Arabic art and culture.

ISBN:

9783863097660

3863097661

OCLC:

1295403032