moral resonance of Arab media
Subtitle: audiocassette poetry and culture in Yemen
By: Flagg Miller.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Harvard Middle Eastern monograph series ; 38
Publisher: Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780932885326
Subjects: Arabic poetry -- Yemen (Republic) -- History and criticism; Arabic poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Audiobooks -- Yemen
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A response to Islamic jihad; title: "Metropolitan tribalism" in the bid : a social history of media aesthetics; title: Vernacular literacy : the value of approaching; title: Yemeni poetry through social aesthetics; title: Communities of repartee distinctions of epistolary practice bid; title: The supplication; title: The messenger journey; title: Greetings; title: Main message; title: A tribal metropolitanism? accounting for the multiple; title: Discursive levels of style; title: Post-1950s : the spread of literacy and accelerated; title: Transformation of metropolitan culture; title: "Cars of all styles and colorful ways" : the emergence of the recording industry and its denizens of song; title: The moral credits of song, music, and discourse; title: Estranged words : indigenous responses to Aden's; title: Cosmopolitan nationalist song; title: Rural media markets and productive decentralization; title: Singers' roles as rural cassette celebrities and as models; title: For regional "color" (lawn); title: Socializing with cassettes conclusion : the obligation of the cassette; title: From pen to polye.