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Arabpop

Autore: Chiara Comito , Silvia Moresi

Numero di pagine: 185

Italia le cosiddette Primavere arabe del 2011 sono state spesso analizzate da commentatori e giornalisti solo come inaspettati scoppi di violenza o come il risultato di giochi di potere tra Stati occidentali. La miopia di un pensiero appiattito su posizioni islamofobe ci ha impedito di conoscere davvero chi scendeva nelle piazze di Tunisi, del Cairo o di Damasco: una giovane generazione che chiedeva libertà, rimettendo in discussione appartenenze politiche, religiose e di genere. Questo spirito di libertà è stato raccolto ed elaborato da intellettuali, artisti e scrittori arabi che al cinema, sui muri delle loro città, nei romanzi, nelle poesie e nelle canzoni hanno raccontato la genesi e le conseguenze dei movimenti di protesta. I contributi di questo volume intendono dare merito a questa incredibile stagione culturale, e far conoscere al pubblico italiano la letteratura, la musica, i film, i lavori artistici e teatrali nati da questo periodo di rivolta.

Pop Culture Arab World!

Autore: Andrew Hammond

Numero di pagine: 392

The first book to explore how Arab pop culture has succeeded in helping forge a pan-Arab identity, where Arab nationalism has failed. Pop Culture Arab World! is the first volume to explore the full scope of Arab cultural life since World War II. The book reveals a homogeneous yet richly diverse culture across the Arab nations. In-depth chapters feature radio/TV (particularly the satellite revolution, which has fostered a shared Arab identity), the press (vibrant and controversial), cinema (once thriving, now in crisis), music (the beating heart of modern Arabness), theater (a largely assimilated Western import), popular religion, belly dance (originating in the Arab world), Western consumerism, sport, and the Arabic language (for Muslims, the tongue of God's final revelation). At a time when almost all we see of the Middle East is violence, oppressive nationalism, dangerous zealotry, and despair, this book is a vivid reminder of the humanity of the region's diverse people.

Popular Culture in the Arab World

Autore: Andrew Hammond

Numero di pagine: 396

This volume explores Arab cultural life since World War II. Chapters cover topics such as radio/TV, the press, cinema, music, theatre, popular religion, belly dance, western consumerism, sport and the Arabic language.

Arabpop. Rivista di arti e letterature arabe contemporanee

Numero di pagine: 0

Pop Culture in North Africa and the Middle East

Autore: Andrew Hammond

Numero di pagine: 364

Ideal for students and general readers, this single-volume work serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in countries in North Africa and the Middle East, covering subjects ranging from the latest young adult book craze in Egypt to the hottest movies in Saudi Arabia. Part of the new Pop Culture around the World series, this volume focuses on countries in North Africa and the Middle East, including Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and more. The book enables students to examine the stars, idols, and fads of other countries and provides them with an understanding of the globalization of pop culture. An introduction provides readers with important contextual information about pop culture in North Africa and the Middle East, such as how the United States has influenced movies, music, and the Internet; how Islamic traditions may clash with certain aspects of pop culture; and how pop culture has come to be over the years. Readers will learn about a breadth of topics, including music, contemporary literature, movies, television and radio, the Internet, sports, video games, and fashion. There ...

Arabpop. Arte e letteratura in rivolta dai Paesi arabi

Autore: C. Comito , S. Moresi

Numero di pagine: 224

Pop-Rock Music

Autore: Motti Regev

Numero di pagine: 298

Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock extends from the emergence of rock'n'roll in the 1950s to a variety of contemporary fashions and trends – rock, punk, soul, funk, techno, hip hop, indie, metal, pop and many more. This book offers a highly original account of the emergence of pop-rock music as a global phenomenon in which Anglo-American and many other national and ethnic variants interact in complex ways. Pop-rock is analysed as a prime instance of 'aesthetic cosmopolitanism' – that is, the gradual formation, in late modernity, of world culture as a single interconnected entity in which different social groupings around the world increasingly share common ground in their aesthetic perceptions, expressive forms and cultural practices. Drawing on a wide array of examples, this path-breaking book will be of great interest to students and scholars in cultural sociology, media and cultural studies as well as the...

Local Music Scenes and Globalization

Autore: Thomas Burkhalter

Numero di pagine: 306

This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation of musicians born at the beginning of the Civil War in the Lebanese capital, an urban and cosmopolitan center with a long tradition of cultural activities and exchanges with the Arab world, Europe, the US, and the former Soviet Union. These Lebanese rappers, rockers, death-metal, jazz, and electro-acoustic musicians and free improvisers choose local and transnational forms to express their connection to the broader musical, cultural, social, and political environment. Burkhalter explores how these musicians organize their own small concerts for ‘insider’ audiences, set up music labels, and network with like-minded musicians in Europe, the US, and the Arab world. Several key tracks are analyzed with methods from ethnomusicology, and popular music studies, and contextualized through interviews with the musicians. Discussing key references from belly dance culture (1960s), psychedelic...

Die Popkultur und der Staat

Autore: Moritz Ege , Lukas Rödder , Julian Schmitzberger , Leonie Thal , Herbert Utz Verlag

Numero di pagine: 112

Die Beiträge in diesem Band gehen dem Verhältnis von Popkultur und staatlichen Institutionen nach. Sie zeigen, inwiefern "Pop" ein suventioniertes Kulturgut sein kann, als Instrument der auswärtigen Kulturpolitik fungiert, als Gefahrenquelle erscheint, die polizeilich unter Kontrolle gebracht werden soll von zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, die im Sinne des Staates handeln, eingespannt und vereinnahmt wird. Die empirisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Fallstudien greifen konkrete Beispiele auf, um allgemeineren Fragen nachzugehen: Welche Ziele verbinden verschiedene Akteur:innen mit der Förderung und Steuerung populärer Künste und Vergnügungen und welche Vorstellungen von Kultur sind damit verbunden? Was sind die Hintergründe dieser Akteur:innen in popkulturellen Szenen und staatlichen Organen? Wie haben sich diese Konstellationen seit der Pop-Welle der 1960er Jahre verändert? Welche Formen des Regierens setzen sie ein und welche Dynamiken und Konflikte entstehen?

Arabpop. Rivista di arti e letterature arabe contemporanee (2024)

Numero di pagine: 0

Arabpop. Rivista di arti e letterature arabe contemporanee (2022)

Numero di pagine: 160

Arabpop. Rivista di arti e letterature arabe contemporanee (2021)

Music, Politics, and Violence

Autore: Susan Fast , Kip Pegley

Numero di pagine: 320

Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music's role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence—issues that cross political boundaries, time periods, and media—and provide cross-cultural case studies of musical practices ranging from large-scale events to regionally specific histories. Following the editors' substantive introduction, which lays the groundwork for conceptualizing new ways of thinking about music as it relates to violence, three broad themes are followed: the first set of essays examines how music participates in both overt and covert forms of violence; the second section explores violence and reconciliation; and the third addresses healing, post-memorials, and memory. Music, Politics, and Violence affords space to look at music as an active agent rather than as a passive art, and to explore how music and violence are closely—and often uncomfortably—entwined. CONTRIBUTORS include Nicholas Attfield, Catherine Baker, Christina Baade, J. Martin Daughtry, James Deaville, David A....

The Invisible Arab

Autore: Marwan Bishara

Numero di pagine: 259

The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program "Empire", combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex influences that made the revolutions possible. Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic nationalism that motivated the revolutions are indispensable to their long-term success. The Invisible Arab is a voyage in time from the Arab world's 'liberation generation' through the 'defeated' and 'lost generations', arriving at today's 'miracle generation'. Bishara unpacks how this new generation, long seen as a demographic bomb, has proved to be the agent of progress, unity and freedom. It has in turn used social networks to mobilize for social justice. Bishara discusses how Israel, oil, terrorism and radical Islam have affected the interior identity of the region as well as Western projections upon it. Protection of Israel, Western imperial ambition, a thirst for oil, and fear of radicalism have caused many Western regimes and media to characterize Arab countries and people as unreceptive to ...

The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture

Autore: Janet Sturman

Numero di pagine: 5177

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology, its methods, concerns, and its contributions to knowledge and understanding of the world′s musical cultures, styles, and practices. The diverse voices of contributors to this encyclopedia confirm ethnomusicology′s fundamental ethos of inclusion and respect for diversity. Combined, the multiplicity of topics and approaches are presented in an easy-to-search A-Z format and offer a fresh perspective on the field and the subject of music in culture. Key features include: Approximately 730 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of print or electronic editions Pedagogical elements include Further Readings and Cross References to conclude each article and a Reader’s Guide in the front matter organizing entries by broad topical or thematic areas Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research (journals, books, and associations), an appendix listing notable archives, libraries, and museums, and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s...

Music and Media in the Arab World

Autore: Michael Aaron Frishkopf

Numero di pagine: 332

Frishkopf, Michael: Introduction: Music and media in the Arab world and music and media in the Arab world as music and media in the Arab world : a metadiscourse. - S. 1-64 Nassar, Zein: A history of music and singing on Egyptian radio and television. - S. 67-76 Abdel-Aziz, Moataz: Arabic music videos and their implications for Arab music and media. - S. 77-89 Wassimi, Mounir al-: Arab music and changes in the Arab media. - S. 91-96 Cestor, Elisabeth: Music and television in Lebanon. - S. 97-110 Ulaby, Laith: Mass media and music in the Arab Persian Gulf. - S. 111-126 Abdel-Latif, Yasser: Music of the streets : the story of a television program. - S. 129-136 Grippo, James R.: What's not on Egyptian television and radio! : locating the 'popular' in Egyptian Sha'bi . - S. 137-162 Elmessiri, Abdel-Wahab: Ruby and the checkered heart. - S. 163-172 Kubala, Patricia: The controversy over satellite : music television in contemporary Egypt. - S. 173-224 Barghouti, Tamim al-: Caliphs and clips. - S. 225-230 Armbrust, Walter: What would Sayyid Qutb say? : some reflections on video clips. - S. 231-254 Darwish, Hany: Images of women in advertisements and video clips : a case study of Sherif...

Social Media and Society

Autore: Majid Khosravinik

Numero di pagine: 218

Social Media and Society brings together a range of scholars working at the intersection of discourse studies, digital media, and society. It is meant to respond to changes in discourse technologies, i.e. the techno-discursive dynamic of social media discourses. The book critically engages with the digital dynamics of representations around discourses of identity, politics, and culture. Other than its topical focus on highly pertinent discourses, the book aspires to offer some fresh insights into the theory, methods, and implementation of CDS in digital environments. The book can be viewed as part of the developing research framework of Social Media Critical Discourse Studies which seeks to integrate the impact of new mediation technologies on discursive meaning-making with its critical contextualisation. In addition to its strongly global outlook, the book incorporates a wide range of research perspectives including CDA, sociolinguistics, political discourse studies, media and technology, discourse theory, popular culture, feminism etc.

Arab Music: A Survey of Its History and Its Modern Practice

Autore: Leo Plenckers

Numero di pagine: 212

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history and the development of Arab music and musical theory from its pre-Islamic roots until 1970, as well as a discussion of the major genres and forms practiced today, such as the Egyptian gīl, the Algerian raï and Palestinian hip hop; it also touches upon musical instruments and folk music.

The Rise of Global Civil Society

Autore: Don Eberly

Numero di pagine: 354

Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at "the bottom of the pyramid" is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need and suffering. It involves a shift from vertical to horizontal power that official aid agencies are only beginning to comprehend. Whereas twenty-five years ago, government aid accounted for 70 percent of all American outflows, today 85 percent of all outflows of resources come from private individuals, businesses, religious congregations, universities, and immigrant communities. If aid policy in the twentieth century relied on top-down bureaucracy dominated by policy specialists and elites, the twenty-first century is shaping up as an era in which citizens, social entrepreneurs, and volunteers link up to solve problems. U.S. military and economic power are basic components of America's presence in the world; but in an environment of rampant anti-Americanism, it is compassion that is America's most...

Transformation & Partnerschaft?

Autore: Leonie Thal

Numero di pagine: 112

Africa

Autore: Toyin Falola , Daniel Jean-jacques

Numero di pagine: 1415

These volumes offer a one-stop resource for researching the lives, customs, and cultures of Africa's nations and peoples. Unparalleled in its coverage of contemporary customs in all of Africa, this multivolume set is perfect for both high school and public library shelves. The three-volume encyclopedia will provide readers with an overview of contemporary customs and life in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa through discussions of key concepts and topics that touch everyday life among the nations' peoples. While this encyclopedia places emphasis on the customs and cultural practices of each state, history, politics, and economics are also addressed. Because entries average 14,000 to 15,000 words each, contributors are able to expound more extensively on each country than in similar encyclopedic works with shorter entries. As a result, readers will gain a more complete understanding of what life is like in Africa's 54 nations and territories, and will be better able to draw cross-cultural comparisons based on their reading.

Fraught Balance

Autore: Shayna M. Silverstein

Numero di pagine: 329

Dabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic, archival, and digital research, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught dynamics of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationhood in an authoritarian state. The book situates dabke politically, economically, and historically in a broader account of expressive culture in Syria's recent (and ongoing) turmoil. Silverstein shows how people imagine the Syrian nation through dabke, how the state has coopted it, how performances of masculinity reveal—and play with—the tensions and complexities of the broader social imaginary, how forces opposed to the state have used it resistively, and how migrants and refugees have reimagined it in their new homes in Europe and the United States. She offers deeply thoughtful reflections on the ethnographer's ethical and political dilemmas on fieldwork in an authoritarian state. Silverstein's study ultimately questions the limits of authoritarian power, considering the pleasure and play intrinsic to dabke circles as evidence for how...

Viaggi di carta

Autore: Rocco Pinto

Numero di pagine: 128

Un romanzo picaresco scritto da un libraio per raccontare, a tratti anche con una vena fantastica, storie di librai e libraie che hanno “rivoluzionato” il mestiere. Narra anche, in modo disincantato, il mondo editoriale italiano e alcuni dei suoi attori più originali. Questo romanzo ci conduce a spasso per i luoghi magici dei libri partendo da Torino. Il protagonista, Andrea, perde il lavoro come addetto alle biblioteche perché durante le consegne ai clienti non riesce a fare a meno di fermarsi e leggere dei brani. Decide di trasferirsi a Barcellona alla ricerca di fortuna e, dopo aver girovagato per la città, capisce che sulla Rambla può rimettersi in gioco grazie a Sant Jordi, protettore della Catalogna. Indossa gli abiti del santo e a chi passeggia per la Rambla propone le sue letture. Da qui hanno inizio le avventure rocambolesche che lo porteranno con Ginevra, Luna e altri protagonisti nella Napoli di Port’Alba e degli Abbagnale, nella Venezia di Manuzio, nella Trieste di Saba ma anche ad Abano Terme, a Tribùk, dove si imbatte in uno strano raduno di librai ed editori. I nostri eroi arriveranno anche a Bologna, Pontremoli, Ventotene, Pietrasanta, Carloforte, Prali, ...

Playing for Keeps

Autore: Daniel Fischlin , Eric Porter

Numero di pagine: 213

The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism. Outlining the relation of improvisatory practices to local and global power structures, they show how in sites as varied as South Africa, Canada, Egypt, the United States, and the Canary Islands, improvisation provides the means for its participants to address the past and imagine the future. In addition to essays, the volume features a poem by saxophonist Matana Roberts, an interview with pianist Vijay Iyer about his work with U.S. veterans of color, and drawings by artist Randy DuBurke that chart Nina Simone's politicization. Throughout, the contributors illustrate how improvisation functions as a model for political, cultural, and ethical dialogue and action that can foster the creation of alternate modes of being and knowing in the world. Contributors. Randy DuBurke, Rana El Kadi, Kevin Fellezs, Daniel Fischlin, Kate Galloway, Reem Abdul Hadi, Vijay Iyer, Mark Lomanno, Moshe Morad, Eric Porter, Sara Ramshaw, Matana Roberts, Darci Sprengel, Paul Stapleton, Odeh Turjman,...

The Development Agenda

Autore: Neil Netanel

Numero di pagine: 549

Neil Netanel has edited this compilation of articles in order to examine the development agenda and the broader issues it touches upon. The contributors include leading scholars from various disciplines, including economics, political science, and law.

Il cuore scoperto

Autore: Victoire Tuaillon , Associazione Vanvera

Numero di pagine: 290

L'amore è qualcosa che si impara? Se sì, come? Quali pratiche concrete possiamo mettere in campo, individualmente e collettivamente, per creare, nutrire, vivere, nonostante tutto, relazioni profonde ed egualitarie? L'amore è un tema fondamentale. Non è futile, infantile, banale, sdolcinato, è un argomento politico, una forza plasmata da norme e immaginari profondamente ancorati al nostro retaggio culturale. E se quindi rimettessimo tutto in discussione? In un mondo libero dalle oppressioni sistemiche, le nostre relazioni fiorirebbero. Ma nel frattempo dobbiamo fare i conti con quello che c'è, trasformandolo. Proviamo ad aprire nuovi orizzonti desiderabili, a ri-fare l'amore. Partecipano al libro: Leo Acquistapace, Valentina Amenta, Antonia Caruso, Carlotta Cossutta, Marie Moïse, Giusi Palomba, Giorgia Serughetti, Sessfem, Giulia Siviero; associazioni e librerie specializzate in tematiche di genere, femminismi e cultura queer.

T-arab: rivoluzioni cantate

Autore: Riccardo Paredi

Numero di pagine: 317

T-Arab è un viaggio sonoro e politico sull’altra sponda del Mediterraneo. Nato come rubrica settimanale per il sito della Fondazione Internazionale Oasis, questo libro esplora attraverso la produzione musicale araba i fermenti rivoluzionari che a partire dal 2011 hanno scosso Nord Africa e Medio Oriente. Ognuna delle 46 “tappe” da cui è composto presenta un autore e una canzone, per poi offrire il testo in lingua originale e una traduzione italiana annotata. Un percorso letteralmente scanzonato, che spazia da composizioni popolari a brani sconosciuti, da classici senza tempo alla scena rap contemporanea, dal Marocco all’Iraq e dal Sudan all’Italia. Un itinerario per far musica e commuoversi, proprio come vuole la parola araba tarab. Riccardo Paredi è dottorando presso l’Università Americana di Beirut (Libano) e ricercatore associato della Fondazione internazionale Oasis. Si interessa di mistica islamica, letteratura araba, dialogo interreligioso e musica mediterranea.

J'accuse

Autore: Francesca Albanese

Numero di pagine: 159

La verità prima di tutto è l’inizio del più famoso J’Accuse della storia moderna, quello di Émile Zola. La verità prima di tutto è anche il movente che ispira questo J’Accuse, che raccoglie la testimonianza della Relatrice speciale Onu sui territori palestinesi occupati da Israele dal 1967. Questo libro non nasce come un instant book. Prima degli attacchi del 7 ottobre 2023 – in un momento in cui l’attenzione mediatica sulla situazione in Israele e nei territori palestinesi occupati era prossima allo zero – J’Accuse voleva essere anzitutto uno strumento per comunicare ai lettori l’urgenza di un tema che non poteva essere ignorato. Attraverso il prezioso lavoro svolto da Francesca Albanese e confluito in tre Rapporti internazionali – presentati rispettivamente nell’ottobre 2022, nel luglio e nell’ottobre 2023 – era possibile documentare in maniera incontestabile l’affermarsi di una condizione di apartheid e di un’occupazione neocoloniale con migliaia di vittime. Questo fatto doveva essere portato all’attenzione del grande pubblico. Dopo il brutale e intollerabile attacco di Hamas, e dopo la guerra conseguente su Gaza, l’attenzione mediatica su...

Moving Texts, Migrating People and Minority Languages

Autore: Michał Borodo , Juliane House , Wojciech Wachowski

Numero di pagine: 170

In an age of migration, in a world deeply divided through cultural differences and in the context of ongoing efforts to preserve national and regional traditions and identities, the issues of language and translation are becoming absolutely vital. At the heart of these complex, intercultural interactions are various types of agents, intermediaries and mediators, including translators, writers, artists, policy makers and publishers involved in the preservation or rejuvenation of literary and cultural repertoires, languages and identities. The major themes of this book include language and translation in the context of migration and diasporas, migrant experiences and identities, the translation from and into minority and lesser-used languages, but also, in a broader sense, the international circulation of texts, concepts and people. The volume offers a valuable resource for researchers in the field of translation studies, lecturers teaching translation at the university level and postgraduate students in translation studies. Further, it will benefit researchers in migration studies, linguistics, literary and cultural studies who are interested in learning how translation studies...

Sounds of Other Shores

Autore: Andrew J. Eisenberg

Numero di pagine: 276

Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa's first mass-mediated popular music in the 1930s, is a famously cosmopolitan form, rich in audible influences from across the Indian Ocean. But the variants of the genre that emerged in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa during the twentieth century feature particularly dramatic, even flamboyant, appropriations of Indian and Arab sonic gestures and styles. Combining oral history, interpretive ethnography, and musical analysis, Sounds of Other Shores explores how Swahili-speaking Muslims in twentieth-century Mombasa derived pleasure and meaning from acts of transoceanic musical appropriation, arguing that these acts served as ways of reflecting on and mediating the complexities and contradictions associated with being "Swahili" in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. The result is a musical anthropology of Kenyan Swahili subjectivity that reframes longstanding questions about Swahili identity while contributing to broader discussions about identity and citizenship in...

African Media and the Digital Public Sphere

Autore: O. Mudhai , W. Tettey , F. Banda

Numero di pagine: 269

This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.

My Voice Is My Weapon

Autore: David A. Mcdonald

Numero di pagine: 359

David A. McDonald presents an ethnographic study of the role of music and musicians in the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.

Through a Screen Darkly

Autore: Martha Bayles

Numero di pagine: 465

“How the vulgarization of American popular culture has distorted the image of the United States for millions of people around the world.”—Francis Fukuyama,New York Times bestselling author What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods—but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the financial crisis and the sophisticated propaganda of modern authoritarians. Another reason, explored for the first time in this pathbreaking book, is the distorted picture of freedom and democracy found in America's cultural exports. In interviews with thoughtful observers in eleven countries, Martha Bayles heard many objections to the violence and vulgarity pervading today’s popular culture. But she also heard a deeper complaint: namely, that America no longer shares the best of itself. Tracing this change to the end of the Cold War, Bayles shows how public diplomacy was scaled back, and in-your-face entertainment became America’s de facto ambassador. This book focuses on the present and recent past, but its perspective is deeply rooted in ...

Consumerist Orientalism

Autore: M. Keith Booker , Isra Daraiseh

Numero di pagine: 273

In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform understandings of cultural exchange? In this detailed and wide-ranging examination, Arab popular culture is explored in its relation to American culture and capitalism. Offering new insights on Edward Said's longstanding theoretical lens, Consumerist Orientalism presents an updated conceptual framework through which to understand the intercultural relationship between East and West, exploring a wide range of cultural production; from an Oscar-nominated Jordanian film to Turkish-Arab soap operas and Arab-diaspora rap. Drawing on key contemporary critical thinkers and in-depth cultural analysis, the relationship between capitalism, postmodernism and Orientalism is explored with fresh insights, making this essential reading for students of Middle Eastern culture, globalisation and postcolonial studies.

Jerusalem

Autore: Menachem Klein

Numero di pagine: 384

Although Israelis and Palestinians are adamant that they will not negotiate or indeed compromise over the status of Jerusalem, agreements have been made and understandings reached between the two protagonists, as well as between other Arab states. This book sheds light on the political history of Jerusalem in Arab-Israeli relations over the last 25 years.

Muslim Societies in the Age of Mass Consumption

Autore: Johanna Pink

Numero di pagine: 367

In the course of the 20th century, hardly a region in the world has escaped the triumph of global consumerism. Muslim societies are no exception. Globalized brands are pervasive, and the landscapes of consumption are changing at a breathtaking pace. Yet Muslim consumers are not passive victims of the homogenizing forces of globalization. They actively appropriate and adapt the new commodities and spaces of consumption to their own needs and integrate them into their culture. Simultaneously, this culture is reshaped and reinvented to comply with the mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. It is these processes that this volume seeks to address from an interdisciplinary perspective. The papers in this anthology present innovative approaches to a wide range of issues that have, so far, barely received scholarly attention. The topics range from the changing spaces of consumption to Islamic branding, from the marketing of religious music to the consumption patterns of Muslim minority groups. This anthology uses consumption as a prism through which to view, and better understand, the enormous transformations that Muslim societies—Middle Eastern, South-East Asian, as well as diasporic...

After the Fall

Autore: Walter Laqueur

Numero di pagine: 271

A master historian takes us deep into the heart of Europe's current political and financial crisis Walter Laqueur was one of the few experts who predicted Europe's current financial and political crisis when he wrote The Last Days of Europe six years ago. Now this master historian takes readers inside the European crisis that he foresaw. Ravaged by the world economic meltdown, increasingly dependent on imported oil and gas, and lacking a common foreign policy, Europe is in dire straits. With the authority that comes from thirty years of experience as an expert on political affairs, the author predicts the future prospects of this troubled continent. Europe is the United States' closest ally, and its prosperity is vital to American's success and security. This is a must-read for anyone invested in our country's future.

Blaming the Victims

Autore: Christopher Hitchens , Edward W. Said

Numero di pagine: 233

Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence. Beginning with a thorough expos of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus-though still widely believed-explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today's distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

Autore: Derek B. Scott

Numero di pagine: 616

The research presented in this volume is very recent, and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose, its aims, and its methods. Contributors to the volume were asked to write something original and, at the same time, to provide an instructive example of a particular way of working and thinking. The essays have been written with a view to helping graduate students with research methodology and the application of relevant theoretical models. The team of contributors is an exceptionally strong one: it contains many of the pre-eminent academic figures involved in popular musicological research, and there is a spread of European, American, Asian, and Australasian scholars. The volume covers seven main themes: Film, Video and Multimedia; Technology and Studio Production; Gender and Sexuality; Identity and Ethnicity; Performance and Gesture; Reception and Scenes and The Music Industry and Globalization. The Ashgate Research Companion is designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companion's editor brings together a team of respected and...

Arab Regionalism

Autore: Silvia Ferabolli

Numero di pagine: 217

Arab regionalism details and examines the power relations involved in the making of an Arab region. On an empirical level, this book concentrates on the drawing of topographic and ideational boundaries in the Arab region, on Arab regional organizations, on the functional cooperation among Arab states and institutions, and on the socio-cultural infra-structure that supports the Arab region making process, with a strong focus on post-1990 dynamics. On a theoretical level, this work makes a case for the analytical autonomy of "Arab" regionalism (as opposed to regionalism in the Middle East or in the Mediterranean) and for the necessity of approaching it as an actual process instead of a failed project. The attitude of debasement and erasure towards Arab regionalism that is common-place in the field of regional studies is replaced in this book for the acknowledgment that there is much more political coordination, economic cooperation and social integration in the Arab region than has previously been assumed. Providing a fresh perspective on Arab regionalism, this book will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers with an interest in Regionalism, Middle Eastern Politics...