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1 online resource (603 pages). |
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text file |
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Music Culture
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Music/culture.
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| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: "Arab" + "Avant-Garde"; Part I: Alternative Modernities: Norms and Innovations; 1. Transforming Space: The Production of Contemporary Syrian Art Music; 2. Balancing Integration and Disintegration: Amir Elsaffar and the Contingent Avant-Garde; 3. Multisited Avant-Gardes or World Music 2.0? Musicians from Beirut and Beyond between Local Production and Euro-American Reception; Part II: Roots and Routes; 4. The "People's Artist" and the Beginnings of the Twentieth-Century Arab Avant-Garde. |
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5. Challenging the Status Quo in War-Torn Lebanon: Ziad Rahbani, the Avant-Garde Heir to Musical Tradition6. A Look at Lightning: The Life and Compositions of Halim El-Dabh; Part III: Political Deployments of The Avant-Garde; 7. Sonic Cosmopolitanisms: Experimental Improvised Music and a Lebanese-American Cultural Exchange; 8. Activism and Authenticity: Palestinian and Related Hip-Hop in an International Frame; 9. Noise and Its Formless Shadows: Egypt's Extreme Metal as Avant-Garde Nafas Dawsha; Selected Discography; Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Political aspects -- Middle East.
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Music -- Political aspects. |
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Middle East. |
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Music. |
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Popular music -- Middle East -- History and criticism.
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Popular music. |
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Music -- Middle East -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Music -- Middle East -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Avant-garde (Music) -- Middle East.
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Avant-garde (Music) |
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1900-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Dickinson, Kay, 1972-
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Harbert, Benjamin J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burkhalter, Thomas. Arab Avant-Garde : Music, Politics, Modernity. Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, ©2013 9780819573858 |
| ISBN |
9780819573872 (electronic book) |
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0819573876 (electronic book) |
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9780819573858 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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081957385X (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780819573865 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0819573868 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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