Images of Enchantment Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East

Name: Images of Enchantment Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East
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ISBN: 9789774244674

ISBN-10: 9774244672

ISBN-13: 9789774244674

Edition: 1998

Authors: Sherifa Zuhur

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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…

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List price: $24.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 10/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Transliteration


Introduction




Changing Images and Shifting Identities: Female Performers in Egypt




Women's Performance in Ritual Context: Weddings Among the Rashayda of Sudan




Folk Music and Dance in the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia




A Procession through Time: The Zaffat al-'Arusa in Three Views




Asmahan: Arab Musical Performance and Musicianship under the Myth




Performance, Political Identity, and Memory: Umm Kulthum and Gamal 'Abd al-Nasir




Western Classical Music in Umm Kulthum's Country




The Music of Arab Americans: Aesthetics and Performance in a New Land




Beyond the Performance




Gender and Politics in Contemporary Art: Arab Women Empower the Image




The Artist's Voice




Imagery and Invention: Sudanese at Home and in the World Conversations with Mohamed Omer Bushara and Musa Khalifa




Image and Experience: Why Cinema?




Victims or Actors? Centering Women in Egyptian Commercial Film




Iranian Cinema under the Islamic Republic




Reverse Imagery: Middle Eastern Themes in Hollywood




Farida Fahmy and the Dancer's Image in Egyptian Film




Terrorism and Kabab: A Capraesque View of Modern Egypt



Bibliography


Notes on Contributors


Index