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Images of enchantment : visual and performing arts of the Middle East / edited by Sherifa Zuhur.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: x, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9774244672
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 700.956 I
Online resources:
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: Explores dance, music, painting and cinema as experienced and practiced within the Middle East and also abroad. The text breaks down the distinctions - of form, geography, "high" and "low" art, performer and artist - to delineate the subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture.
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"Dar el Kutub no. 11371/97"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index.

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.

Explores dance, music, painting and cinema as experienced and practiced within the Middle East and also abroad. The text breaks down the distinctions - of form, geography, "high" and "low" art, performer and artist - to delineate the subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture.

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