Activism and Authenticity: Palestinian and Related Hip Hop
From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance...
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ftkentuniv:oai:kar.kent.ac.uk:55145 2023-05-15T18:12:30+02:00 Activism and Authenticity: Palestinian and Related Hip Hop Rooney, Caroline R. Burkhalter, Thomas 2013-11-13 https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55145/ http://norient.com/en/blog/the-arab-avant-garde/ unknown Rooney, Caroline R., Burkhalter, Thomas (2013) Activism and Authenticity: Palestinian and Related Hip Hop. The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity, . pp. 209-228. ISSN 970819573865. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:55145 </55145>) PE English philology and language Article PeerReviewed 2013 ftkentuniv 2023-03-12T19:08:53Z From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance styles, political motivations, professional trainings, and inter-continental collaborations that claim the mantle of “innovation” within Arab and Arab diaspora music. While most books on Middle Eastern music-making focus on notions of tradition and regionally specific genres, The Arab Avant Garde presents a radically hybrid and globally dialectic set of practices. Engaging the “avant-garde”—a term with Eurocentric resonances—this anthology disturbs that presumed exclusivity, drawing on and challenging a growing body of literature about alternative modernities. Chapters delve into genres and modes as diverse as jazz, musical theatre, improvisation, hip hop, and heavy metal as performed in countries like Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and the United States. Focusing on multiple ways in which the “Arab avant-garde” becomes manifest, this anthology brings together international writers with eclectic disciplinary trainings—practicing musicians, area studies specialists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of popular culture and media. Contributors include Sami W. Asmar, Michael Khoury, Saed Muhssin, Marina Peterson, Kamran Rastegar, Caroline Rooney, and Shayna Silverstein. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami University of Kent: KAR - Kent Academic Repository |
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From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance styles, political motivations, professional trainings, and inter-continental collaborations that claim the mantle of “innovation” within Arab and Arab diaspora music. While most books on Middle Eastern music-making focus on notions of tradition and regionally specific genres, The Arab Avant Garde presents a radically hybrid and globally dialectic set of practices. Engaging the “avant-garde”—a term with Eurocentric resonances—this anthology disturbs that presumed exclusivity, drawing on and challenging a growing body of literature about alternative modernities. Chapters delve into genres and modes as diverse as jazz, musical theatre, improvisation, hip hop, and heavy metal as performed in countries like Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and the United States. Focusing on multiple ways in which the “Arab avant-garde” becomes manifest, this anthology brings together international writers with eclectic disciplinary trainings—practicing musicians, area studies specialists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of popular culture and media. Contributors include Sami W. Asmar, Michael Khoury, Saed Muhssin, Marina Peterson, Kamran Rastegar, Caroline Rooney, and Shayna Silverstein. |
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Rooney, Caroline R., Burkhalter, Thomas (2013) Activism and Authenticity: Palestinian and Related Hip Hop. The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity, . pp. 209-228. ISSN 970819573865. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:55145 </55145>) |
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