| Description |
1 online resource (x, 324 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sherifa Zuhur -- Changing images and shifting identities : female performers in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Women's performance in ritual context : wedding among the Rashayda of Sudan / William Young -- Folk music and dance in the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia / Kay Hardy Campbell -- A procession through time: the Zaffat al-ʻarusa in three views -- Asmahan : Arab musical performance and musicianship under the myth / Sherifa Zuhur -- Performance, political identity, and memory : Umm Kulthum and Gamal ʻAbd al-Nasir / Virginia Danielson -- Western classical music in Umm Kulthum's country / Selim Sednaoui -- The music of Arab Americans : aesthetics and performance in a new land / Anne Rasmussen -- Beyond the performance / Simon Shaheen -- Gender and politics in contemporary art : Arab women empower the image / Salwa M. Nashashibi -- The artist's voice / Chaibia Talal -- Imagery and invention : Sudanese at home and in the world conversations with Mohamed Omer Bushara and Musa Khalifa / Sondra Hale -- Image and experience : why cinema? / Farida Ben Lyazid -- Victims or actors? centering women in Egyptian commercial film / Sherifa Zuhur -- Iranian cinema under the Islamic Republic / Hamid Naficy -- Reverse imagery : Middle Eastern themes in Hollywood / Rebecca Stone -- Farida Fahmy and the dancer's image in Egyptian film / Marjorie Franken -- Terrorism and Kabab : a Capraesque view of modern Egypt / Walter Armbrust |
| Summary |
"This book brings a new approach to the study of the arts of the Middle East. By dealing in one volume with dance, music, painting, and cinema, as experienced and practiced not only within the Middle East but also abroad, Images of Enchantment breaks down the artificial distinctions - of form, geography, 'high' and 'low' art, performer and artist - that are so often used to delineate the subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture." "The eighteen essays in this book cover themes as diverse as Bedouin dance, the music of Arab Americans, cinema in Egypt and Iran, Hollywood representations of the Middle East, and contemporary Sudanese painting. The contributions come from scholars and critics and from the artists themselves. Together, they present a wide-ranging and holistic view of the arts in their social, political, anthropological, and gender contexts."--Jacket |
| Notes |
"Dar el Kutub no. 11371/97"--Title page verso |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Arts, Middle Eastern -- 20th century
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ART -- Reference.
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ART -- Performance.
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Arts, Middle Eastern
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Kunst
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Kunst.
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Naher Osten
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zuhur, Sherifa
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| ISBN |
1417523166 |
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9781417523160 |
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