Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
Material type: TextPublisher: New York: Pantheon Books, 2014Edition: First edDescription: 398 p., 25 cmISBN:- 9780375424908
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Books | Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01 | F 486 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | F 486 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-377), discography (pages 341-343), filmography (page 343), and index.
"In this timely, revelatory study, Hisham Aidi examines the secular and religious movements that have recently emerged among Muslim youth in the West as a means of protest against the policies of the "War on Terror." He interviews artists and activists, and reports from music festivals and concerts. He explains how certain kinds of music--particularly hip hop, but also Jazz, gnawa, Andalusian, Judeo-Arabic, Latin and others--have come to represent a heightened racial identity and a Muslim consciousness that criss-crosses the globe. He describes how western governments--particularly the U.S. and England--use music in an attempt to deradicalize Muslim youth abroad. And he explores the increasing radicalization among Muslim youth in an historical context: looking back to the Civil Rights movement and to the words of Malcolm X which have inspired many American Muslims. In all, Aidi has written a riveting, eye-opening portrait of a growing, potentially radical segment of the global youth culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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