Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture
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Год
 
Страниц
 
424
ISBN
 
0822335166
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Re/Search Publications
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Поступления 2006 года

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Book DescriptionThis important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East Studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottomanperiod to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. Contributors consider the ways that Palestinian and Israeli popular culture influences and is influenced by political economic, social, and historical processes in the region. At the same time, they follow the circulation of Palestinian and Israeli cultural commodities and imaginations across borders and checkpoints and within the global marketplace. The volume is interdisciplinary, including the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, ethnomusicologists, and Americanist and literary studies scholars. Contributors examine popular music of the...

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