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Title The Arab avant-garde : music, politics, modernity / Thomas Burkhalter, Kay Dickinson, and Benjamin J. Harbert, editors.

Publication Info. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
©2013

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML348 .A73    Available  ---
Description vii, 284 pages : music ; 24 cm.
Series Music/culture
Music/culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Contents A note on transliteration : introduction : "Arab" + "Avant-garde" / Kay Dickinson -- Transforming space : the production of contemporary Syrian art music / Shayna Silverstein -- Balancing integration and disintegration : Amir Elsaffar and the contingent avant-garde / Kamran Rastegar -- Multisited avant-gardes or world music 2.0? Musicians from Beirut and beyond between local production and Euro-American reception / Thomas Burkhalter -- The "people's artist" and the beginnings of the twentieth-century Arab avant-garde / Saed Muhssin -- Challenging the status quo in war-torn Lebanon : Ziad Rabhani, the avant-garde heir to musical tradition / Sami W. Asmar -- A look at lightning : the life and compositions of Halim El-Dabh / Michael Khoury -- Sonic cosmopolitanisms : experimental improvised music and a Lebanese-American cultural exchange / Marina Peterson -- Activism and authenticity : Palestinian and related hip-hop in an international frame / Caroline Rooney -- Noise and its formless shadows : Egypt's extreme metal as avant-garde Nafas Dawsha / Benjamin J. Harbert.
Language English text.
Subject Avant-garde (Music) -- Middle East.
Avant-garde (Music)
Middle East.
Music -- Middle East -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- Middle East -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Popular music -- Middle East -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
Music -- Political aspects -- Middle East.
Music -- Political aspects.
Musik.
Avantgarde.
Arabische Staaten.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Burkhalter, Thomas, 1973- editor.
Dickinson, Kay, 1972- editor.
Harbert, Benjamin J., editor.
ISBN 9780819573858 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
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9780819573872 (ebook)

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