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Mass mediations : new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond

Title: Mass mediations : new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond / edited by Walter Armbrust.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Armbrust, Walter.

Description

xi, 378 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. Introduction: Anxieties of Scale / Walter Armbrust -- 2. Public Culture in Arab Detroit: Creating Arab/American Identities in a Transnational Domain / Andrew Shryock -- 3. The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music from Bazm-e Qajariyyeh to Beverly Hills Garden Parties / Anthony Shay -- 4. Sa'ida Sultan/Danni International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border / Ted Swedenburg -- 5. Playing It Both Ways: Local Egyptian Performers between Regional Identity and International Markets / Katherine E. Zirbel -- 6. Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah: Moroccan Music and Euro-American Imagination / Philip Schuyler -- 7. Nasser 56/Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community / Joel Gordon -- 8. Consuming Damascus: Public Culture and the Construction of Social Identity / Christa Salamandra -- 9. The Hairbrush and the Dagger: Mediating Modernity in Lahore / Richard McGill Murphy --
10. "Beloved Istanbul": Realism and the Transnational Imaginary in Turkish Popular Culture / Martin Stokes -- 11. Badi'a Masabni, Artiste and Modernist: The Egyptian Print Media's Carnival of National Identity / Roberta L. Dougherty -- 12. American Ambassador in Technicolor and Cinemascope: Hollywood and Revolution on the Nile / Robert Vitalis -- 13. The Golden Age before the Golden Age: Commerical Egyptian Cinema before the 1960s / Walter Armbrust.

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99043224

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Columbia University Libraries