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Muslims Making British Media
Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion
Muslims Making British Media
Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion
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Description
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 | 17 Nov 2022 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 240 |
ISBN | 9781350265363 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
Series | Islam of the Global West |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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The presence of Muslim creatives and the media they create has far-reaching implications outside of cultivating religious identities; Muslims Making British Media is a thoughtful inauguration into those inquiries.
The Journal of Religion
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This book is a necessary survey of a long established Muslim cultural scene. The number of groups and genres included make this text an essential introduction to how Muslims are cultural producers, no matter where they are. Mixed with history and sociology, the author contextualizes and recognizes the humanity of the Muslims he talks about in the book. A solid introductory and foundational text.
Hussein Rashid, independent scholar, USA
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Muslims Making British Media brilliantly chronicles how Muslim cultural producers have been making their voices heard in the 21st century. Carl Morris is a sure-footed guide to the creative successes and formidable dilemmas that British Muslims encounter as they produce TV, film, theatre, comedy and music.
Daniel Nilsson DeHanas, Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Religion, King's College London, UK
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This insightful and meticulously researched monograph presents a compelling exploration of Muslim agency within the realm of popular culture in Britain… Masterfully locating and analysing the strategic and nuanced cultural work of Muslim creatives within a landscape fraught with stereotypes, this monograph, in my opinion, is a must-read for scholars who are interested in further exploring the intertwinement of popular culture and (re)configuration of identity.
Journal for the Study of British Cultures

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