Globalized Muslim youth in the Asia Pacific
Subtitle: popular culture in Singapore and Sydney
By: Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
Series: The modern Muslim world
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137543509
Subjects: Popular culture and globalization; Popular culture; Muslim youth; Globalization; Islam
Notes: "A sociological study of Muslim youth culture based on original ethnographic fieldwork in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney. Muslims in Singapore and Sydney face similar challenges, such as their minority status and low socio-economic position relative to the larger society. The challenges these young urban Muslims face in their everyday lives are complicated by their context within the broader processes of globalization that bring together the September 11th generation living in the Information Age. Comparing young Muslims living in secular, multicultural cities across three domains of popular culture--hip-hop music, tattooing, and cultural consumption--this study illuminates the range of attitudes and strategies they adopt to reconcile popular youth culture with piety"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Muslim youth culture, globalization, and piety; title: Rethinking Muslim youth identities; title: Nasyid, jihad and hip-hop; title: Tattooing the Muslim youth body; title: Youth resistance through cultural consumption.