Rebel music
Subtitle: race, empire, and the new Muslim youth culture
By: Hisham D. Aidi
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780375424908; 9780307908681
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Social conditions; Music and youth; Protest movements; Muslim youth
Description: "In this timely, revelatory study, Hisham Aidi examines the secular and religious movements that have recently emerged among Muslim youth in the West as a means of protest against the policies of the "War on Terror." He interviews artists and activists, and reports from music festivals and concerts. He explains how certain kinds of music--particularly hip hop, but also Jazz, gnawa, Andalusian, Judeo-Arabic, Latin and others--have come to represent a heightened racial identity and a Muslim consciousness that criss-crosses the globe. He describes how western governments--particularly the U.S. and England--use music in an attempt to deradicalize Muslim youth abroad. And he explores the increasing radicalization among Muslim youth in an historical context: looking back to the Civil Rights movement and to the words of Malcolm X which have inspired many American Muslims. In all, Aidi has written a riveting, eye-opening portrait of a growing, potentially radical segment of the global youth culture"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-377), discography (pages 341-343), filmography (page 343), and index.