Music and Media in the Arab World

Description

Key issues of contemporary Arab society addressed through the culture of music
Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly transformed as well. Simultaneously, mass mediated music has become a powerful social force. While parallel processes have unfolded worldwide, their implications in the Arabic-speaking world have thus far received little scholarly attention.
This provocative volume features sixteen new essays examining these issues, especially televised music and the controversial new genre of the music video. Perceptive voicesboth emerging and establishedrepresent a wide variety of academic disciplines. Incisive essays by Egyptian critics display the textures of public Arabic discourse to an English readership. Authors address the key issues of contemporary Arab societygender and sexuality, Islam, class, economy, power, and nationas refracted through the culture of mediated music.
Interconnected by a web of recurrent concepts, this collection transcends music to become an important resource for the study of contemporary Arab society and culture.
Contributors: Wael Abdel Fattah, Yasser Abdel-Latif, Moataz Abdel Aziz, Tamim Al-Barghouti, Mounir Al Wassimi, Walter Armbrust, Elisabeth Cestor, Hani Darwish, Walid El Khachab, Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri, James Grippo, Patricia Kubala, Katherine Meizel, Zein Nassar, Ibrahim Saleh, Laith Ulaby.
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Music and Media in the Arab World and Music and Media in the Arab World as Music and Media in the Arab World: A Metadiscourse
Michael Frishkopf
Historical Reflection
1. A History of Music and Singing on Egyptian Radio and Television
Zein Nassar
2. Arabic Music Videos and Their Implications for Arab Music and Media
Moataz Abdel Aziz
3. Arab Music and Changes in the Arab Media
Mounir Al Wassimi
4. Music and Television in Lebanon
Elisabeth Cestor
5. Mass Media and Music in the Arab Persian Gulf
Laith Ulaby
Cultural Critique, Cultural Analysis
6. Critique: Music of the Streets: The Story of a Television Program
Yasser Abdel-Latif
7. Analysis: What's Not on Egyptian Television and Radio! Locating the 'Popular' in Egyptian Sha'bi
James R. Grippo
8. Critique: Ruby and the Checkered Heart
Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri
9. Analysis: The Controversy over Satellite
Music Television in Contemporary Egypt
Patricia Kubala
10. Critique: Caliphs and Clips
Tamim Al-Barghouti
11. Analysis: What Would Sayyid Qutb Say?
Some Reflections on Video Clips
Walter Armbrust
12. Critique: Images of Women in Advertisements and Video Clips: A Case Study of Sherif Sabri
Hany Darwish
13. Analysis: Arab Video Music: Imagined Territories and the Liberation of Desire (or: Sex Lies in Video (Clip))
Walid El Khachab
14. Critique: The Biographies of Starlets Today: Revolutions in Sound and Image
Wael Abdel Fattah
15. Analysis: Real-politics: Televised Talent Competitions and Democracy Promotion in the Middle East
Katherine Meizel

Sujets

• Musique
• Culture musicale
• Ethnic
• Music
• Islam

Informations

• Publié par: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781617976032
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Music and Media
Music and Media
in the Arab World
Edited by Michael Frishkopf
The American University in Cairo Press Cairo New York
This electronic edition published in 2014 by
The American University in Cairo Press
113 Sharia Kasr el Aini, Cairo, Egypt
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Copyright 2010, 2014 Michael Frishkopf
Chapter 1 was translated from the Arabic by Marwa Zein Nassar. Chapters 3 , 6 , 12 , and 14 were translated from the Arabic by Somaya Ramadan.
An earlier version of Chapter 2 appeared as Arab Music Video and Its Implications in the Realm of Arab Media. Global Media Journal 3 (5) (Fall 2004), http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/fa04/graduatefa04/gmj-fa04grad-aziz.htm . Reproduced by permission.
An earlier version of Chapter 6 appeared as Musiqa al-shari : qissat barnamij tilifizyuni, in Amkina , no. 8 (June 2007). Translated and reproduced by permission.
An earlier version of Chapter 8 appeared as al-Fidyu klib wa-l-jasad wa-l- awlama, in al-Ahram , April 8, 2004, and subsequently as Ruby and the Chequered Heart in Al-Ahram Weekly , March 12-23, 2005, Issue no. 734. Reproduced by permission.
An earlier version of Chapter 10 appeared as Video Clips and the Masses: 2 Worlds Apart. Daily Star (Beirut), June 10, 2004. Reproduced by permission.
An earlier version of Chapter 11 appeared as What Would Sayyid Qutb Say? Some Reflections on Video Clips. Transnational Broadcasting Studies , no. 13. Reproduced by permission.
An earlier version of Chapter 14 appeared as Sawarikh al-ithara al-musawwara min Bayrut ila al-Qahira, in al-Mustaqbal , October 1, 2003, Issue no. 1414, Culture and Arts section, p. 20. Translated and reproduced by permission.
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Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Music and Media in the Arab World and Music and Media in the Arab World as Music and Media in the Arab World: A Metadiscourse
Michael Frishkopf
Historical Reflection
1. A History of Music and Singing on Egyptian Radio and Television
Zein Nassar
2. Arabic Music Videos and Their Implications for Arab Music and Media
Moataz Abdel Aziz
3. Arab Music and Changes in the Arab Media
Mounir Al Wassimi
4. Music and Television in Lebanon
Elisabeth Cestor
5. Mass Media and Music in the Arab Persian Gulf
Laith Ulaby
Cultural Critique, Cultural Analysis
6. Critique Music of the Streets: The Story of a Television Program
Yasser Abdel-Latif
7. Analysis What s Not on Egyptian Television and Radio! Locating the Popular in Egyptian Sha bi
James R. Grippo
8. Critique Ruby and the Checkered Heart
Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri
9. Analysis The Controversy over Satellite Music Television in Contemporary Egypt
Patricia Kubala
10. Critique Caliphs and Clips
Tamim Al-Barghouti
11. Analysis What Would Sayyid Qutb Say? Some Reflections on Video Clips
Walter Armbrust
12. Critique Images of Women in Advertisements and Video Clips: A Case Study of Sherif Sabri
Hany Darwish
13. Analysis Arab Video Music: Imagined Territories and the Liberation of Desire (or: Sex Lies in Video (Clip))
Walid El Khachab
14. Critique The Biographies of Starlets Today: Revolutions in Sound and Image
Wael Abdel Fattah
15. Analysis Real-politics: Televised Talent Competitions and Democracy Promotion in the Middle East
Katherine Meizel
Contributors
Moataz Abdel Aziz is an adjunct faculty member and audio-visual supervisor at the Department of Performing and Visual Arts, the American University in Cairo. He is a composer, audio and video editor, cinematographer, instructor, and technical consultant.
Wael Abdel Fattah is a writer, critic, and journalist (Cairo). Well-known throughout the Arab world, he has served as journalist and editor at a number of periodicals, including Sawt al-umma, al-Fajr, and Rose al-Youssef In 2006 he became head of the Cairo office of Lebanon s al-Akhbar newspaper. He also wrote a number of episodes entitled al-Abb al-ruhi (The Godfather) in 1998 about Fouad Haddad, Zaki Tolaymat, and Zakerya Al Hegawy, followed in 2006 by a documentary called The History of Short Films, a production of Al Jazeera. He was a member of the judges committee for the Beirut Festival for Documentaries. In 2005 and 2007, he published two books about the lives of the two well-known critics Samir Farid and Kamal Ramzy. His first collection of poetry, entitled Kassala (Lazy People) was published in 2006 on the Internet, followed by a new collection of poetry, entitled al-Gharam (Passion) published by Dar al-Nahda al- Arabiya in 2009.
Yasser Abdel-Latif is a writer and journalist (Cairo). He graduated from Cairo University with a degree in philosophy. An established literary figure, his novel, Qanun al-wiratha (The Law of Inheritance, 2002) received the Sawiris prize for literary creativity in 2005, and was translated into Spanish as Herencias de el Cairo in 2007. His two collections of poetry are entitled Nas wa ahjar (People and Stones, 1995) and Jawla layliya (Noctural Round, 2009). Yasser has published literary texts, articles, and translations in magazines such as Rose al-Youssef Akhbar al-adab, Akhir sa a, al-Fann al-sabi , al-Kitaba al-ukhra, Zawaya, and Amkina, and has written scripts for a number of documentary films: No One Came Back (2007); The Eagle Road (a Hot Spot Film production for Al Jazeera Channel, 2004); and An Upright Citizen from Maadi (2002). The latter film was shown at the al-Ismailiya Short Film Festival; the Arabic Film Biennale, Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris); and the Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium (2004). He works as a scriptwriter at the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, where he has prepared many television shows about music and cinema in Egypt for the Nile Variety Channel.
Walter Armbrust is the Albert Hourani Fellow of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St. Antony s College, and university lecturer in Oriental studies, University of Oxford (UK). He is the author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (1996) and editor of Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond (2000). He has written numerous articles and book chapters on popular culture and mass media in the Arab world. Dr. Armbrust is also a senior editor of the electronic journal Arab Media and Society (http://www.arabmediasociety.org/). The working title of his current research project is A History of New Media in the Arab World.
Tamim Al-Barghouti is a poet, journalist, political scientist, and musician. A Palestinian, he was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1977. He studied politics at Cairo University, the American University in Cairo, and Boston University, where he received his PhD in 2004. Tamim has published five poetry collections and two academic books on political theory and Middle East History, including Fi-l-Quds (In Jerusalem, 2008), Maqam Iraq (The Iraqi Ode, 2005), and The Umma and the Dawla: The Nation State and the Middle East (2008). Besides his performances in many Arab countries, Tamim is also known as a columnist for the Lebanese Daily Star , where he wrote a weekly feature on Arab culture, history, and identity in 2003 and 2004. After working at the United Nations (Division of Palestinian Rights, Department of Political Affairs) in New York, he was appointed an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo. In 2005-2006 he joined the United Nations Mission in Sudan, becoming a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting lecturer at the Free University in Berlin in 2007. Al-Barghouti is currently Visiting Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Elisabeth Cestor is a researcher, SHADYC (Marseille). She has a PhD in sociology, and is a correspondent member of the research laboratory at Sociologie, histoire, anthropologie des dynamiques culturelles (SHADYC) of the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, France). She works for the review La pens e de midi (Actes Sud) and is an expert in the study of world music, in particular that of the Mediterranean.
Hany Darwish is a writer, journalist, and cultural critic (Cairo). He is an editorial coordinator at al-Badil newspaper in Cairo, and has written a number of scripts for the Egyptian Radio and Television Union, such as Mulid gabal al-tayyer, Ibtisamit al-sendbgad, and E shek al-dafayer, and published an article entitled Rayya and Sekina: Eighty-Five Years of Jaded Adaptation in Alif, Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 28 (2008). In 2008, at Ashkal Alwan Forum (Lebanon), he gave a lecture entitled Cairo Underground: The Mirror of the City Transformations, and has participated in numerous cinema, criticism, and creative writing workshops. Hany is a regular contributor to periodicals of the Arab world, including al-Mustaqbal (Lebanon), Zawaya (Lebanon), Bidoun (New York), and Annahar (Lebanon), and also writes for the Now Lebanon Web site (http://www.nowlebanon.com/).
Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri (1938-2008) was professor emeritus at the English department, Ain Shams University (Cairo). He received his PhD in comparative literature from Rutgers University in 1969, and was renowned throughout the Arab world for his research on Judaism and Zionism; secularism and prejudice; Western culture; modernism and postmodernism; literary theory; and comparative literature.
Michael Frishkopf is associate professor at the department of music, and associate director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, University of Alberta (Canada). He received his doctorate from UCLA s Department of Ethnomusicology in 1999. His research centers on the Arab music industry, Sufi musi