TY - BOOK ID - 86344636 TI - Islam and popular culture AU - Nieuwkerk, Karin van AU - LeVine, Mark AU - Stokes, Martin PY - 2016 SN - 1477308881 1477308873 9781477308875 9781477309049 1477309047 147730889X PB - Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, DB - UniCat KW - Islam and culture KW - Islam in mass media. KW - Popular culture KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture KW - Mass media KW - Culture and Islam KW - Islamic civilization KW - Islam and culture - Islamic countries - 20th century. KW - Islam and culture - Islamic countries - 21st century. KW - Islam in mass media KW - Popular culture - Islamic countries KW - Music - Islamic countries - History and criticism KW - Music KW - 1900-2099 KW - Islamic countries. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86344636 AB - Popular culture serves as a fresh and revealing window on contemporary developments in the Muslim world because it is a site where many important and controversial issues are explored and debated. Aesthetic expression has become intertwined with politics and religion due to the uprisings of the "Arab Spring," while, at the same time, Islamist authorities are showing increasingly accommodating and populist attitudes toward popular culture. Not simply a "westernizing" or "secularizing" force, as some have asserted, popular culture now plays a growing role in defining what it means to be Muslim. With well-structured chapters that explain key concepts clearly, Islam and Popular Culture addresses new trends and developments that merge popular arts and Islam. Its eighteen case studies by eminent scholars cover a wide range of topics, such as lifestyle, dress, revolutionary street theater, graffiti, popular music, poetry, television drama, visual culture, and dance throughout the Muslim world from Indonesia, Africa, and the Middle East to Europe. The first comprehensive overview of this important subject, Islam and Popular Culture offers essential new ways of understanding the diverse religious discourses and pious ethics expressed in popular art productions, the cultural politics of states and movements, and the global flows of popular culture in the Muslim world. ER -