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. 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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