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Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

  • Author: Stein, Rebecca L.; Swedenburg, Ted; Tamari, Salim; LeVine, Mark
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822335047
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822386872
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2005
  • Month: July
  • Pages: 424
  • DDC: 306/.095694
  • Language: English
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli popular culture influences and is influenced by political, economic, social, and historical processes in the region. At the same time, they follow the circulation of Palestinian and Israeli cultural commodities and imaginations across borders and checkpoints and within the global marketplace.

The volume is interdisciplinary, including the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, ethnomusicologists, and Americanist and literary studies scholars. Contributors examine popular music of the Palestinian resistance, ethno-racial “passing” in Israeli cinema, Arab-Jewish rock, Euro-Israeli tourism to the Arab Middle East, Internet communities in the Palestinian diaspora, café culture in early-twentieth-century Jerusalem, and more. Together, they suggest new ways of conceptualizing Palestinian and Israeli political culture.

Contributors. Livia Alexander, Carol Bardenstein, Elliott Colla, Amy Horowitz, Laleh Khalili, Mary Layoun, Mark LeVine, Joseph Massad, Melani McAlister, Ilan Pappé, Rebecca L. Stein, Ted Swedenburg, Salim Tamari

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Popular Culture, Transnationality, and Radical History - Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg
  • Part I: Historical Articulations
    • Wasif Jawhariyyeh, Popular Music, and Early Modernity in Jerusalem - Salim Tamari
    • The Palestinian Press in Mandatory Jaffa: Advertising, Nationalism, and the Public Sphere - Mark LeVine
    • Post-Zionism and Its Popular Cultures - Ilan Pappé
  • Part II: Cinemas and Cyberspaces
    • Cross/Cast: Passing in Israeli and Palestinian Cinema - Carol Bardenstein
    • Virtual Nation: Palestinian Cyberculture in Lebanese Camps - Laleh Khalili
    • Is There a Palestinian Cinema? The National and Transnational in Palestinian Film Production - Livia Alexander
  • Part III: The Politics of Music
    • Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music - Joseph Massad
    • Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum - Amy Horowitz
    • Against Hybridity: The Case of Enrico Macias/Gaston Ghrenassia - Ted Swedenburg
  • Part IV: Regional and Global Circuits
    • ‘‘First Contact’’ and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process - Rebecca L. Stein
    • Prophecy, Politics, and the Popular: The Left Behind Series and Christian Evangelicalism’s New World Order - Melani McAlister
    • Telling Stories in Palestine: Comix Understanding and Narratives of Palestine-Israel - Mary Layoun
    • Sentimentality and Redemption: The Rhetoric of Egyptian Pop Culture Intifada Solidarity - Elliott Colla
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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