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Popular culture Arab world! : arts, politics, and the media / Andrew Hammond.

By: Hammond, Andrew, 1970-.
Series: Popular culture in the contemporary world. Publisher: New York : ABC-CLIO, 2007Description: viii, 367 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9789774160547.Subject(s): Civilization, Arab -- 21st century | Popular culture -- Arab countries | Mass media -- Arab countriesDDC classification: 306.09174927
Contents:
1. Culture and politics in the Arab World Today - 2. The Arabic language: the key to Arab identity - 3. Popular religion: where 1,001 ialams converge - 4. Arab consumer culture: the packaging of people and places - 5. Arab cinema and the dream of modernization - 6. From umm kalthum to arabpop - 7. The belly dance: a reinvented Arab groove - 8. Television: from media mobilization to satellite revolution - 9. The trials and tribulations of the Arabic press - 10. Arab theater: the struggle for high culture - Appendix 1: Religious figures - Appendix 2: Arabic press - Appendix 3: Chronology of cultural and political events - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-345) and index.

1. Culture and politics in the Arab World Today - 2. The Arabic language: the key to Arab identity - 3. Popular religion: where 1,001 ialams converge - 4. Arab consumer culture: the packaging of people and places - 5. Arab cinema and the dream of modernization - 6. From umm kalthum to arabpop - 7. The belly dance: a reinvented Arab groove - 8. Television: from media mobilization to satellite revolution - 9. The trials and tribulations of the Arabic press - 10. Arab theater: the struggle for high culture - Appendix 1: Religious figures - Appendix 2: Arabic press - Appendix 3: Chronology of cultural and political events - Index.