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Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion
Muslims Making British Media
Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion
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Drawing on original fieldwork, Carl Morris examines Muslim cultural production in Britain, with a focus on the performance-based entertainment industries: music, comedy, film, television and theatre. It is a seminal study that charts the growing agency and involvement of British Muslims in cultural production over the last two decades. Morris sets this discussion within the context of wider religious, social and cultural change, with important insights concerning the sociological profile, religious lives and public visibility of Muslims in contemporary Britain.
Morris draws on theoretical considerations concerning the mediatization of religion and cosmopolitanization in a globally-connected world. He argues that a new generation of media-savvy and internationalist Muslim cultural producers in Britain are constructing counter narratives in the public sphere and are reshaping everyday religious lives within their own communities. This is having a profound impact upon areas that range from Islamic authority and religious practice, to political and public debate, and understandings of Muslim identity and belonging.
Table of Contents
Part I
1. A Cultural History of Muslims in Britain: From Colonial Newsreels to Post-9/11 Broadcasting
2. Sound and Vision: From Rappers and Rockers to the Muslim Netflix
3. Understanding Muslim Popular Culture: Rethinking Islam in the Media Age
Part II
4. Voices of Authority: Knowledge, Nurture and Sectarianism
5. Everyday Islam: Consumer Culture, Performance and Spirituality
6. Speaking Out: Representation, Discrimination and Identity Politics
7. Communal Culture: Diaspora, Myth and Imagined Communities
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Product details

Published | Jun 27 2024 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 240 |
ISBN | 9781350265394 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
Series | Islam of the Global West |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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