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Radical new thinking about Arab subcultures from live art to music making

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What is ´Arab´ about Arab subcultures? This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural groups and practices, including film, graffiti, music, live art performances, Arab techies and youth cultures. Contributors tackle a number of questions including: How is the study of Arab subcultures to be theorised? How are we to analyse such creative processes in a new worldliness characterised by trans-temporality and trans-subjectivity? Arab Subcultures effectively opens up a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue about Arab subcultures with different fields of enquiry, including anthropology, philosophy, art criticism and cultural studies, at the heart of which lies the key intellectual task of re-imagining the uneasy relation between aesthetics and politics in the age of revolutions.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Sub-culturing or any type of culturing as a temporal conjuncture
Tarik Sabry and Layal Ftouni

Chapter 2 ´Hatha al-Shibl min dhak al-Asad´: Arab Youth Studies and the revival of ´subculture´ Ramy Aly

Chapter 3 Hacking Rites: Recoding the Political in Contemporary Cultural Practices Tarek El-Ariss

Chapter 4 On ´Resistance´: Affective Politics in Live Performances of Arabic Rap Rayya El-Zein

Chapter 5 Cosmopolitans, Nationalists and Fundamentalists in the Modern Middle East Sami Zubaida (reprint from Beyond Islam, 2011, I.B. Tauris)

Chapter 6 Mediated Imagination, Class and Cairo´s Young Cosmopolitan Heba Elsayed

Chapter 7
The Terrain of Subculture in Silences of the Palace (Mofida Tlatli, 1994) Margherita Sprio

Chapter 8 Screening Everyday Violence: Youth, Globalisation and Subcultural Aesthetics in Moroccan Cinema
Jamal Bahmad

Chapter 9 Visualising the Unseen: Documentary Filmmaking and LGBT Performativity in Lebanon Nisrine Mansour

Chapter 10 Mithly.net: An Alternative Digital Discourse From Morocco, 2010-2011 Justin McGuinness

Chapter 11 The Cultural Avant-Gardes and the Social Net: The Case of Egypt Stefan Winkler

Chapter 12 Just a bunch of (Arab) geeks? How an elite of "techies" shaped a digital culture in the Arab region and contributed to the making of the Arab uprisings Donatella Della Ratta & Augusto Valeriani

Chapter 13 Performative Interventions in Public Space: An interview with Dictaphone Group Conducted by Layal Ftouni

Index

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Sabry, Tarik
Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster, in the UK, where he is a member of the Communication and Media Research Institute and the director of the Arab Media Centre.

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