The moral resonance of Arab media
Subtitle: audiocassette poetry and culture in Yemen
By: Flagg Miller.
Series: Harvard Middle Eastern monograph -- 38; Harvard Middle Eastern monographs -- 38.
Publisher: Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780932885326
Subjects: Arabic poetry -- Yemen (Republic) -- History and criticism.; Arabic poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.; Audiobooks -- Yemen (Republic)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-493) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Folk-poetry cassettes : between community and conflict; value: "Metropolitan tribalism" in the bidʻ wa jiwāb qaṣīdah : a social history of media aesthetics; value: "Cars of all styles and colorful ways" : the emergence of the recording industry and its denizens of song; value: From pen to polyester and back; value: Signs and songs of the poet : moral character and the resonance of authorship; value: The significance of history's personalities : the legacy of the Abd al-Naser series.