Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater
Subtitle: artistic developments in the Muslim world
By: edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780292726819; 9780292735521
Subjects: Islamic civilization; Arts; Muslims; Western influences; Social conditions; Popular culture; Islam and art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Artistic developments in the Muslim cultural sphere: ethics, aesthetics, and the performing arts / Karin van Nieuwkerk; title: The power of performance. Hardcore Muslims: Islamic themes in Turkish rap between diaspora and homeland / Thomas Solomon; title: Contesting Islamic concepts of morality: heavy metal in Istanbul / Pierre Hecker; title: Iranian popular music in Los Angeles: a transnational public beyond the Islamic state / Farzaneh Hemmasi; title: Part 2. Motivations. Ritual as strategic action: the social logic of musical silence in Canadian Islam / Michael Frishkopf; title: Pious entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic cultural sphere /Joseph Alagha; title: Of morals, missions, and the market: new religiosity and "art with a mission" in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk; title: Part 3. Staging the body and the world stage. Islamic modernity and the re-enchanting power of symbols in Islamic fantasy serials in Turkey / Ahu Yiğit; title: From "evil-inciting" dance to chaste "rhythmic movements": a genealogy of modern Islamic dance-theatre in Iran / Zeinab stellar; title: Suficized musics of Syria at the intersection of heritage and the War on Terror; or "a Rumi with a view" / Jonathan H. Shannon; title: Afterword / Martin Stokes.