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Imagined Youths |
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MER245 |
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Snipers and the Panic Over Five Percent Islamic Hip-Hop |
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The Post-September 11 Arab Wave in World Music |
Music from the Arab world has traditionally been a minor player within world music, the marketing category encompassing a wide variety of international music that emerged in the late 1980s. Aimed at an NPR listening “adult” audience... |
MER224 |
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Arab "World Music" in the US |
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MER219 |
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Troubadours of Revolt |
Rami ‘Isam, a 23-year old pony-tailed singer for the so-so rock band Mashakil, based in Mansoura, showed up at Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011, guitar in hand and ready to join the pro-democracy revolt. His music soon became an important... |
MER258 |
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Rai, Rap and Ramadan Nights |
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MER178 |
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Lavie, The Poetics of Military Occupation |
Smadar Lavie, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule (California, 1990).
The era of the nation-state has increasingly put into question... |
MER178 |
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Rai Ride Rising |
Two Algerian rai tunes make the top ten of the Village Voice music critics’s poll in 1989. Rai is now heard daily on college radio from the University of Pennsylvania to Oregon State. Urban dance clubs with “world music... |
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