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1 online resource (xxx, 398 pages) |
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A groundbreaking investigation into the Muslim youth movements that have emerged in cities around the world in the years since 9/11, and in the wake of the Arab Spring, that illuminates the unexpected connections between urban marginality, music, and political mobilization. In this timely, revelatory study, Hisham Aidi examines the secular and religious movements that have recently emerged among Muslim youth in the west as a means of protest against the policies of the "War on Terror." He interviews artists and activists and reports from music festivals and concerts. He explains how certain kinds of music'particularly hip hop, but also jazz, Gnawa, Andalusian, Judeo-Arabic, Latin, and others'have come to represent a heightened racial identity and a Muslim consciousness that crisscrosses the globe. He describes how Western governments'particularly the U.S. and England'use music in an attempt to deradicalize Muslim youth abroad. And he explores the increasing radicalization among Muslim youth in a historical context: looking back to the Civil Rights movement and to the words of Malcolm X that have inspired many American Muslims. In all, Aidi has written a riveting, eye-opening portrait of a growing, potentially radical segment of the global youth culture. |
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Illuminating the unexpected connections between urban marginality, music, and political mobilization, investigates the Muslim youth movements that have emerged as means of protest against the policies of the war on terror. |
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"In this timely, revelatory study, Hisham Aidi examines the secular and religious movements that have recently emerged among Muslim youth in the West as a means of protest against the policies of the "War on Terror." He interviews artists and activists, and reports from music festivals and concerts. He explains how certain kinds of music--particularly hip hop, but also Jazz, gnawa, Andalusian, Judeo-Arabic, Latin and others--have come to represent a heightened racial identity and a Muslim consciousness that criss-crosses the globe. He describes how western governments--particularly the U.S. and England--use music in an attempt to deradicalize Muslim youth abroad. And he explores the increasing radicalization among Muslim youth in an historical context: looking back to the Civil Rights movement and to the words of Malcolm X which have inspired many American Muslims. In all, Aidi has written a riveting, eye-opening portrait of a growing, potentially radical segment of the global youth culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-377), discography (pages 341-343), filmography (page 343), and index. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Muslim youth -- Western countries -- Social conditions.
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Music and youth -- Western countries.
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Protest movements -- Western countries.
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Music and youth. |
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Muslim youth -- Social conditions. |
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Protest movements. |
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Western countries. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Aidi, Hisham. Rebel music New York : Pantheon Books, 2014 9780375424908 (DLC) 2013028800 (OCoLC)849199224 |
| ISBN |
9780307908681 : $50.85 |
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0307908682 : $50.85 |
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