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The Arab Avant-Garde : Music, Politics, Modernity / Thomas Burkhalter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Music/culturePublication details: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (603 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780819573872
  • 0819573876
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Arab Avant-Garde : Music, Politics, Modernity.DDC classification:
  • 780.956/0905 780.9560905
LOC classification:
  • ML348 .A73 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : "Arab" + "Avant-Garde" -- Alternative Modernities : Norms and Innovations. Transforming Space : The Production of Contemporary Syrian Art Music ; Balancing Integration and Disintegration : Amir Elsaffar and the Contingent Avant-Garde ; Multisited Avant-Gardes or World Music 2.0? Musicians from Beirut and Beyond between Local Production and Euro-American Reception -- Roots and Routes. The "People's Artist" and the Beginnings of the Twentieth-Century Arab Avant-Garde ; Challenging the Status Quo in War-Torn Lebanon : Ziad Rahbani, the Avant-Garde Heir to Musical Tradition ; A Look at Lightning : The Life and Compositions of Halim El-Dabh -- Political Deployments of The Avant-Garde. Sonic Cosmopolitanisms : Experimental Improvised Music and a Lebanese-American Cultural Exchange ; Activism and Authenticity : Palestinian and Related Hip-Hop in an International Frame ; Noise and Its Formless Shadows : Egypt's Extreme Metal as Avant-Garde Nafas Dawsha.
Summary: The author presents an in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music.
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Introduction : "Arab" + "Avant-Garde" -- Alternative Modernities : Norms and Innovations. Transforming Space : The Production of Contemporary Syrian Art Music ; Balancing Integration and Disintegration : Amir Elsaffar and the Contingent Avant-Garde ; Multisited Avant-Gardes or World Music 2.0? Musicians from Beirut and Beyond between Local Production and Euro-American Reception -- Roots and Routes. The "People's Artist" and the Beginnings of the Twentieth-Century Arab Avant-Garde ; Challenging the Status Quo in War-Torn Lebanon : Ziad Rahbani, the Avant-Garde Heir to Musical Tradition ; A Look at Lightning : The Life and Compositions of Halim El-Dabh -- Political Deployments of The Avant-Garde. Sonic Cosmopolitanisms : Experimental Improvised Music and a Lebanese-American Cultural Exchange ; Activism and Authenticity : Palestinian and Related Hip-Hop in an International Frame ; Noise and Its Formless Shadows : Egypt's Extreme Metal as Avant-Garde Nafas Dawsha.

The author presents an in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music.

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