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Author Burkhalter, Thomas

Title Local Music Scenes and Globalization
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Ethnomusicology
Routledge studies in ethnomusicology.
Contents Cover; Local Music Scenes and Globalization; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Theory and Methodology-Music Making in a Digitalized World; 1 Globalization and Digitalization in Music; 2 Theoretical Frame; 3 Methodological Approach; PART II Ethnography-Musicians from Beirut Born During the Lebanese Civil War; 4 Experimental Music; 5 Metal Music and Classic Rock; 6 Urban Music; 7 Rap; 8 Transnational Networks (Human Hubs); 9 Music as a Media Product; 10 Musicians as Actors
PART III Analysis-Six Key Tracks from Beirut11 Zeid Hamdan: "Aranis" (Remixed); 12 Garo Gdanian: "Remains of a Bloodbath"; 13 Mazen Kerbaj: "Blblb Flblb," "ZRRRT," "PIIIIIIIIIIII", "Taga of Daga"; 14 Raed Yassin: "Civil War Tapes"; 15 Charbel Haber: "Track 5"; 16 Rayess Bek: "Schizophrenia"; PART IV History-Music and Noise in Lebanon from the Past and Present; 17 Ground Setting: The Urbanization and Europeanization of Music in the Arab World; 18 Modern Music from Cairo-Old Music from Aleppo; 19 European Music and Christian Hymns in Beirut (1926-1948)
20 The Creation of a "Lebanese Music" (1948-1967)21 Nasserism Versus Tourism (1952-1967); 22 The Rise of Dissident Culture and Alternative Music (1968-1975); 23 Bombs, Protest, Propaganda, and Rock Music from the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990); 24 Pan-Arabic Pop and the 2006 War; PART V Meaning-Reading Lebanese Music Making from Different Perspectives; 25 Historical Perspectives; 26 Sociopolitical Perspectives; 27 Geopolitical Perspectives; 28 Psychological Perspectives; 29 Aesthetical Perspectives; 30 Euro-American Perspectives; Conclusion; Notes; References; Discography; Weblinks; Index
Summary This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda. Burkhalter studies the generation of musicians born at the beginning of the Civil War in the Lebanese capital, an urban and cosmopolitan center with a long tradition of cultural activities and exchanges with the Arab world, Europe, the US, and the former Soviet Union. These Lebanese rappers, rockers, death-metal, jazz, and electr
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Subject Music and globalization -- Lebanon
Music and transnationalism -- Lebanon
Popular music -- Social aspects -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Popular music -- Political aspects -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Music -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- History and criticism
Music
Music and globalization
Music and transnationalism
Popular music
Popular music -- Political aspects
Popular music -- Social aspects
Lebanon
Lebanon -- Beirut
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135073701
1135073708