TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hammond,Andrew
TI  - Popular Culture in the Arab World: arts, politics, and the media 
SN  - 9789774160547 (pbk.) :
AV  - DS36.88 .H357 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cairo, New York
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Civilization, Arab
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Mass media
N1  - "This edition is published by arrangement with ABC-CLIO"-- T.p. verso; "An earlier version of this book was published as Pop culture Arab world!: media, arts, and lifestyle in 2004 by ABC-CLIO."--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-351) and index; Culture and politics in the Arab world today -- The Arabic language : the key to Arab identity -- Popular religion : where 1001 Islams converge -- Arab consumer culture : the packaging of people and places -- Arab cinema and the dream of modernization -- From Umm Kalthum to Arabpop -- The belly dance : a reinvented Arab groove -- Television : from media mobilization to satellite revolution -- The trials and tribulations of the Arabic press -- Arab theater : the struggle for high culture
ER  -