Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture

Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ as opposed to an intellectual ‘high’ culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking...

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description Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ as opposed to an intellectual ‘high’ culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the elite and a stance against those who have ‘something to loose’ within paralyzed and conservative communities. Albeit not denying the subversive political potential associated with these practices, this volume intends to take a more nuanced and broader perspective. Arabic popular culture might engage with emancipatory claims, but it might as easily follow the capitalist rulebook of global marketing. It might fight against oppressive authorities, yet it can equally become their symbol. Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture therefore closely looks at the aesthetic implications of a topic ranging from Lebanese hip hop over Algerian pop novels to jihadi chants in the ‘Islamic State’ as well as from Egyptian mahraganāt music over sarcastic stories about hash dens and time travel in downtown Cairo to Saudi-Arabian YouTube-influencers. Thus, the theoretical scope widens and the reader is taken on a delightful journey to the unsettling pleasures of contemporary Arabic art and culture.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1381222025-07-18T09:45:50Z Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture Konerding, Peter Wiedemann, Felix Behzadi, Lale Massenkultur Influencer Literatur Arabische Staaten Pop-Kultur Popliteratur Dschihadismus Arabisch thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ as opposed to an intellectual ‘high’ culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the elite and a stance against those who have ‘something to loose’ within paralyzed and conservative communities. Albeit not denying the subversive political potential associated with these practices, this volume intends to take a more nuanced and broader perspective. Arabic popular culture might engage with emancipatory claims, but it might as easily follow the capitalist rulebook of global marketing. It might fight against oppressive authorities, yet it can equally become their symbol. Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture therefore closely looks at the aesthetic implications of a topic ranging from Lebanese hip hop over Algerian pop novels to jihadi chants in the ‘Islamic State’ as well as from Egyptian mahraganāt music over sarcastic stories about hash dens and time travel in downtown Cairo to Saudi-Arabian YouTube-influencers. Thus, the theoretical scope widens and the reader is taken on a delightful journey to the unsettling pleasures of contemporary Arabic art and culture. 2024-05-18T04:08:34Z 2024-05-18T04:08:34Z 2024-05-17T16:13:18Z 2021 book ONIX_20240517_9783863097660_21 OCN: 1391175616 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/90308 9783863097660 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/138122 eng Bamberger Orientstudien open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/90308/1/9783863097660.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/90308/1/9783863097660.pdf University of Bamberg Press 10.20378/irb-49890 10.20378/irb-49890 02ec4fa1-0d3e-42ea-b1f5-5b710c6fd863 9783863097660 AG Universitätsverlage 230 Bamberg open access
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Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture
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Influencer
Literatur
Arabische Staaten
Pop-Kultur
Popliteratur
Dschihadismus
Arabisch
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
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Influencer
Literatur
Arabische Staaten
Pop-Kultur
Popliteratur
Dschihadismus
Arabisch
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
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