Mass Mediations

New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond

By: Walter Armbrust (Editor)

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Paperback | 19 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Note on Transliteration	p. xi
Introduction: Anxieties of Scale	p. 1
Public Culture in Arab Detroit: Creating Arab/American Identities in a Transnational Domain	p. 32
The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music from Bazm-e Qajariyyeh to Beverly Hills Garden Parties	p. 61
Sa'ida Sultan/Danna International: Transgender Pop and the Polysemiotics of Sex, Nation, and Ethnicity on the Israeli-Egyptian Border	p. 88
Playing It Both Ways: Local Egyptian Performers between Regional Identity and International Markets	p. 120
Joujouka/Jajouka/Zahjoukah: Moroccan Music and Euro-American Imagination	p. 146
Nasser 56/Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community	p. 161
Consuming Damascus: Public Culture and the Construction of Social Identity	p. 182
The Hairbrush and the Dagger: Mediating Modernity in Lahore	p. 203
"Beloved Istanbul": Realism and the Transnational Imaginary in Turkish Popular Culture	p. 224
Badi'a Masabni, Artiste and Modernist: The Egyptian Print Media's Carnival of National Identity	p. 243
American Ambassador in Technicolor and Cinemascope: Hollywood and Revolution on the Nile	p. 269
The Golden Age before the Golden Age: Commercial Egyptian Cinema before the 1960s	p. 292
References	p. 329
List of Contributors	p. 355
Index	p. 359
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