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Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond Paperback - 2000
by Walter Armbrust
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- Title Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond
- Author Walter Armbrust
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 389
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Univ of California Pr on Demand, Berkeley
- Date 2000
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0520219260
- ISBN 9780520219267 / 0520219260
- Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 5.96 x 0.94 in (22.96 x 15.14 x 2.39 cm)
- Reading level 1540
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99043224
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.230
First line
From the rear cover
Reflected in these essays is the fact that mass media are as ubiquitous in Cairo and Karachi as in Los Angeles and Detroit. A music group marketed in the West as "authentically Moroccan" is both marginal to what most Moroccans regard as the mainstream of their culture, and crucially linked to the Rolling Stones. In the Pakistani city of Lahore the global cultural economy affects the moral economy of nationalist and Islamic representation. 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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Citations
- Choice, 05/01/2001, Page 1662