The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burkhalter, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown Wesleyan University Press 2013
Series:Music/culture
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Item Description:Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: "Arab" + "Avant-Garde"; Part I: Alternative Modernities: Norms and Innovations; 1. Transforming Space: The Production of Contemporary Syrian Art Music; 2. Balancing Integration and Disintegration: Amir Elsaffar and the Contingent Avant-Garde; 3. Multisited Avant-Gardes or World Music 2.0? Musicians from Beirut and Beyond between Local Production and Euro-American Reception; Part II: Roots and Routes; 4. The "People's Artist" and the Beginnings of the Twentieth-Century Arab Avant-Garde
5. Challenging the Status Quo in War-Torn Lebanon: Ziad Rahbani, the Avant-Garde Heir to Musical Tradition6. A Look at Lightning: The Life and Compositions of Halim El-Dabh; Part III: Political Deployments of The Avant-Garde; 7. Sonic Cosmopolitanisms: Experimental Improvised Music and a Lebanese-American Cultural Exchange; 8. Activism and Authenticity: Palestinian and Related Hip-Hop in an International Frame; 9. Noise and Its Formless Shadows: Egypt's Extreme Metal as Avant-Garde Nafas Dawsha; Selected Discography; Contributors; Index
The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music
Physical Description:603 pages
ISBN:9780819573872
0819573876
9780819573858
081957385X
9780819573865
0819573868

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