Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and BeyondWalter Armbrust Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new dimensions of identity that affect economics, politics, aesthetics, and performance. Reflected in these essays is the fact that mass media are as ubiquitous in Cairo and Karachi as in Los Angeles and Detroit. From Persian popular music in Beverly Hills to Egyptians' reaction to a recent film on Gamal Abdel Nasser; from postmodern Turkish novels to the music of an Israeli transsexual singer, the essays illustrate the multiple contexts of modern cultural production. The unfolding of modernity in colonial and postcolonial societies has been little analyzed until now. In addressing transnational aspects of Middle Eastern societies, the contributors also challenge conventional assumptions about the region and its relation to the West. The volume will have wide appeal both to Middle Eastern scholars and to readers interested in global and cultural studies. |
Contents
Introduction Anxieties of Scale | 1 |
Public Culture in Arab Detroit Creating ArabAmerican Identities in a Transnational Domain | 32 |
The 68 Beat Goes On Persian Popular Music from Bazme Qajariyyeh to Beverly Hills Garden Parties | 61 |
Saida SultanDanna International Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex Nation and Ethnicity on the IsraeliEgyptian Border | 88 |
Playing It Both Ways Local Egyptian Performers between Regional Identity and International Markets | 120 |
JoujoukaJajoukaZahjoukah Moroccan Music and EuroAmerican Imagination | 146 |
Nasser 56Cairo 96 Reimaging Egypts Lost Community | 161 |
Consuming Damascus Public Culture and the Construction of Social Identity | 182 |
Beloved Istanbul Realism and the Transnational Imaginary in Turkish Popular Culture Martin Stokes | 224 |
Badia Masabni Artiste and Modernist The Egyptian Print Medias Carnival of National Identity | 243 |
American Ambassador in Technicolor and Cinemascope Hollywood and Revolution on the Nile | 269 |
The Golden Age before the Golden Age Commercial Egyptian Cinema before the 1960s | 292 |
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS | 355 |
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The Hairbrush and the Dagger Mediating Modernity in Lahore | 203 |
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